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Title: A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1

Author: Georges Perrot
Charles Chipiez

Translator: Walter Armstrong

Release Date: February 14, 2009 [EBook #28072]

Language: English

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A HISTORY

OF

ART IN CHALDAEA & ASSYRIA

FROM THE FRENCH
OF
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. I._

TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
WALTER ARMSTRONG, B.A., Oxon.,

AUTHOR OF "ALFRED STEVENS," ETC.

[Illustration]

London: CHAPMAN AND HALL, Limited.
New York: A. C. ARMSTRONG AND SON.
1884.

London:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL.

PREFACE.

In face of the cordial reception given to the first two volumes of MM.
Perrot and Chipiez's History of Ancient Art, any words of introduction from
me to this second instalment would be presumptuous. On my own part,
however, I may be allowed to express my gratitude for the approval
vouchsafed to my humble share in the introduction of the History of Art in
Ancient Egypt to a new public, and to hope that nothing may be found in the
following pages to change that approval into blame.

W. A.

_October 10, 1883._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHALDAEO-ASSYRIAN CIVILIZATION.

PAGE

Sec. 1. Situation and Boundaries of Chaldaea and Assyria 1-8

Sec. 2. Nature in the Basin of the Euphrates and Tigris 8-13

Sec. 3. The Primiti