They made bronze statues, bronze bas-reliefs, bronze beams, and such was their knowledge and technical dexterity, that we might almost assert without fear of exaggeration, that bronze metal-working was as advanced three thousand years before our era, as it has ever been in modern times. With them, bronze took the place of stone. The same reason will also explain the extraordinary development we find in the metal-working of the Elamites from the earliest times. Owing to the fact that they lived in a country where stone could not be obtained without great difficulty, the Susians built their houses, palaces, and temples with brick: and it was doubtless due to the same cause that they showed themselves so eager to carry off the stone statues and bas -reliefs that adorned the Chaldæn cities, and which they seized by right of conquest, to embellish their own capital. The Chaldæn - Assyria - Elamites (Archeological Discoveries at Souza) - The Phœnicians & The Cypriots - The Hittites Archeological Discoveries Manual of Oriental Antiquities, including the Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts of Chaldæ, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæ, Phœnicia, and Carthage.
Librarian of the Department of Medals and Antiques in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Manual of Oriental Antiquities - Babelon, Ernest.
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