PREFACE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. CHALDAEAN ART.

CHAPTER II. ASSYRIAN ARCHITECTURE.

CHAPTER III. ASSYRIAN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. I. Statues, StelAE, and Obelisks.

CHAPTER IV. INDUSTRIAL ARTS. I. Ceramics.

CHAPTER V. PERSIAN ART.

CHAPTER VI. THE HITTITES. [65]

CHAPTER VII. JEWISH ART.

CHAPTER VIII. PHOENICIAN AND CYPRIOTE ART.

CHAPTER IX. ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES AT SUSA. I. M. de Morgan's Mission in Susiana .

INDEX.

MANUAL
OF
ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES

INCLUDING THE
Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts
OF
CHALDÆA, ASSYRIA, PERSIA, SYRIA, JUDÆA,
PHŒNICIA, AND CARTHAGE.

BY
ERNEST   BABELON,
Librarian of the Department of Medals and Antiques in the BibliothÈque Nationale, Paris.

NEW EDITION,
WITH A CHAPTER ON THE RECENT DISCOVERIES AT SUSA.

With Two Hundred and Fifty-five Illustrations.

NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS
LONDON: H. GREVEL AND CO.,
1906.

Printed and bound by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury, England.