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148 Hisix>RY OF Art in Antiquity. that which it occupies in the palaces of Nineveh. The difference may be explained from the fact of the relative thinness of the walls. Here are found no long passagres pierced through a mountain of crude brick, de- manding rev6te- ment and bas- reliefs for the walls. The depth of the openings is feeble, and the frame is but one stone deep. The doorway was, no doubt, stolen from the en- trances to the Assyrian palaces, but the narrow field allowed of but two, or at most three, figures. In the apartments, no trace of slabs decorated by the chisel has been discovered, such as could have been applied to the base of walls; had they existed, some few frai^ments at least would have been found in the rubbish. We are not to seek here, then, those spaces which the sculptor filled with a dense crowd of personat^es, so as to convey to the mind of the beholder a high conception of the majesty of his Fig. 73.— Persepolis. Combat or king with griffin. Palace No. 3. Flamdin and CosTC, fUne m$eietim, Plate CXXV. Digitized by Google