[48] Perrot and Chipiez, op. cit., vol. ii., p. 319 ff.

[49] Wrongly called Sennacherib by M. Babelon.

[50] E. Müntz, La Tapisserie, p. 22.

[51] See especially J. Menant, La Glyptique Orientale, t. ii.

[52] For the recent discoveries at Susa and discussion of Elamite remains, see Chapter IX. of this volume.

[53] Heuzey, in the Revue politique et littéraire, 1886, p. 661.

[54] L’art antique de la Perse, t. i., p. 8.

[55] L’art antique de la Perse, t. ii., p. 37.

[56] Dieulafoy, op. cit., t. ii., p. 80.

[57] Pendentives are generally held to have been introduced into architecture several centuries after our era, and to have first appeared in a perfect form in the Church of St. Sophia at Constantinople, the dome of which, as Procopius says (De Ædificiis, Bk. I., c. i.) seems to hang by a golden chain from the sky.