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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon

CHAPTER V
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3.] The third of the designs approaches nearly to the modern caricature.

It is a drawing in two portions.

The upper line of figures represents a procession of worshippers who bear in solemn state their offerings to a god.

In the lower line this occupation is turned to a jest.

Nondescript animals bring with a serio-comic air offerings which consist chiefly of game, while a man in a mask seeks to steal away the sacred tree from the temple wherein the scene is enacted.


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