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...Assyrian art is a much more promising field for the student to work in than Babylonian art. It offers both in sculpture and architecture more novel and more attractive developments. The Assyrians introduced the arch and the column into their architecture and thus made possible more beauty and diversification of structure...
...Assyrian art is generally divided into two period; of the earlier one which extends about down to the 8th century before Christ, we have no actual remains, as the temples were restored, and often entirely rebuilt by the later kings. It was customary to restore the decaying buildings of earlier times and we learn from numerous inscriptions that the kings wished all sorts of imprecations on the heads of those of their successors who should not maintain the temples and palaces they built. For knowledge of this earlier period we must depend on inscriptions. The later period which extends down...
...Assyrian Art. Fourth lecture. Professor Arthur L. Frothingham, of Princeton College. Upper Boylston...
...ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.Professor A. L. Frothingham of Princeton delivers his remaining lectures on Assyrian Archaeology on the 24th and 26th. The lectures will be given in upper Boylston and will be illustrated with stereopticon views. The public are invited. The following is a detailed programme of the third and fourth lectures...
...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...