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Stone is very rare in Chaldea, and could be brought only at great expense from a distance. Hence all the buildings of earlier ages were built of bricks. o we read of the Tower of Babel, that "they had bricks for stone."
The outsides of the buildings were covered with burnt or kiln-dried bricks to keep out the rain. More elaborate specimens of their pottery appear in articles for domestic uses, and especially in their coffins.
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This type of dress, which in the British Museum is described as worn by “a Mythological Figure in attendance upon King Assur-nasir-pal”, ninth century B.C., might be dated about 1000 B.C., as following the usual custom of the ancients who dressed their sacred figures in the costume of some previous generation as a rule
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King Assur-nasir-pal
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King Assur-nasir-pal (ninth century B.C.)
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Assyrian
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This man, in hunting dress dates from ninth century B.C
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This woman, a captive of Sennacherib who reigned in eighth and seventh centuries B.C., wears a long tunic
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Queen of Assur-nasir-pal
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Layard's "Nineveh."
Beards were curled and probably dyed and powdered, the powder, however, being gold. As a matter of fact, gold was employed in various ways as an enrichment to the hair.
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