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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1, by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF ART IN CHALDAEA *** Produced by Paul Dring, Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) 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
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