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"Modern Chaldean and ancient Assyrian", engraving, 1856

Date

1856

Wood engraving setting the profile of a moustached modern Chaldean man in a fez and frock coat face to face with a head from an ancient Assyrian relief. It illustrates an Illustrated London News article on new Assyrian sculptures at the British Museum, which quotes Layard on the likeness between the modern Chaldeans and the ancient Assyrians and describes Hormuzd Rassam's excavations at Kouyunjik.