A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

FROM THE FRENCH
GEORGES PERROT, PROFESSOR IN THE FACULTY OF LETTERS, PARIS; MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE, AND CHARLES CHIPIEZ.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT AND FIFTEEN STEEL AND COLOURED PLATES.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—-VOL. II.
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY WALTER ARMSTRONG, B.A., Oxon., AUTHOR OF “ALFRED STEVENS,” ETC.
London: CHAPMAN AND HALL, Limited.
New York: A. C. ARMSTRONG AND SON.
1884.
London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, BREAD STREET HILL.
A HISTORY OF ART
CHALDÆA AND ASSYRIA
History contradicts any such theory. The asserted inequality did not exist. The piety of Chaldæans and Assyrians was no less lively and profound than that of the Egyptians. A Seti or a Rameses, the cherished son and visible image of Amen, the prince who became a god after his life was done, was no less powerful and venerable at Memphis and Thebes than were Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar at Nineveh and Babylon.