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Assyrian Sculpture. French consuls, MM. Botta and Place, and the English traveller, Sir H. Layard, are inseparably connected. These bas-reliefs resemble those of Egypt in many respects ; but they have an even greater historical value, for they are Fig. 72. — Assyrian bas-relief on a wall. more varied and lifelike, and less loaded with figures of the deities. The same ignorance of perspective is betrayed in them as in the reliefs of Memphis : fishes and boats are seen piled one above the other, and human figures in