Word: assyria
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...account of the storm only a fair audience gathered last evening to hear the last of the series of lectures on Assyria Archaeology. The subject of the lecture was the influence of Assyrian and Babylonia on the art of the surrounding nations, and the effect felt to some extent by these countries themselves from their intercourse with other countries...
Ninevah in the height of her power, was the center of the commercial world; people from all parts of the world congregated there and left the point of their civilization on the art of Assyria, to a very slight extent, to be sure; still, the effect is perceptable...
...protracted wars which were waged between Egypt and Assyria, threw the two peoples into close contact and the effect is perceived in art of both countries; only, however, in the medals and ivory carvings, etc., and not in the architecture and monumental sculpture. The influence of the Hittites was much more marked. A highly civilized people, they had an art and a system of hieroglyphics of their own; they left monuments scattered over many parts of Syria. There was little unity in their art, however, except some peculiarities of costumes, a boot turned up at the toe, and a high...
...Phoenician art felt strongly the influence of both Egypt and Assyria; we can trace the two types of art in the same bas-relief. It was a heterogenious art, in which every peculiarity was borrowed from the surrounding countries...
...Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria, - History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Nineveh and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace; its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus...