Pl. 1.
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Assurbanipal fighting lions.
British Museum.
Pl. 2.
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Portion of a Babylonian Royal Mantle. Layard’s “Monuments,” series i., pl. 9.
The style of the Babylonian embroideries appears to have been naturalistic though conventionalized. We may judge of their styles for different purposes by the reliefs in the British Museum. From their veils and curtains at a later date, when they had crossed their art with that of India, we may imagine the mystical design of the Temple curtain as described by Josephus; in fact, as much as possible embracing all things on the earth and above it, excepting the images of the heavenly bodies.[31]