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 54 A History of Art in Chald.-ka and Assyria. the size of their remains and the vast extent of ground they cover allow us to guess at the power and energy of the people Fig. 22. — Town besieged by Sennacherib. Height 86 inches. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. British Museum. to whom they owed their existence, there are no ruins in the world from which so little of the real thoughts and ideas of