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Page 268
... followed the con- ventions current in Mesopotamia . One interesting.excep- tion is a type of carved steatite bowl , at first thought to be an Elamite product but since found at sites as far apart as Mari on the Euphrates and Mohenjo ...
... followed the con- ventions current in Mesopotamia . One interesting.excep- tion is a type of carved steatite bowl , at first thought to be an Elamite product but since found at sites as far apart as Mari on the Euphrates and Mohenjo ...
Page 433
... followed from Piranesi's workshop , among them the Antichità romane ( 1748 ) , the Carceri ( c . 1745 ) , Della magnificenza ed architettura de Romani ( 1764 ) , and the Parere su l'architettura ( 1764 ) . The first of a long and ...
... followed from Piranesi's workshop , among them the Antichità romane ( 1748 ) , the Carceri ( c . 1745 ) , Della magnificenza ed architettura de Romani ( 1764 ) , and the Parere su l'architettura ( 1764 ) . The first of a long and ...
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... followed by four years in which the Japanese consolidated their mili- tary position in Manchuria , encroached on the adjacent provinces of China , and tried , by various pressures on Chiang Kai - shek's Nanking government , to obtain ...
... followed by four years in which the Japanese consolidated their mili- tary position in Manchuria , encroached on the adjacent provinces of China , and tried , by various pressures on Chiang Kai - shek's Nanking government , to obtain ...
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