[58] Revue politique et littéraire, 1886, p. 661.

[59] Op. cit., t. iii., p. 186.

[60] Lenormant and Babelon, Hist. anc. de l’Orient, t. vi., p. 18, f.

[61] The existence of a supreme god, Ilu, among the Assyrian deities is not proved, though assumed by M. Babelon, who supposes that the winged figure on the Assyrian bas-reliefs is Ilu.

[62] Coste and Flandin, La Perse ancienne, pl. 164.

[63] Dieulafoy, L’art antique de la Perse, t. iv., p. 79.

[64] Compare Flandin and Coste, Perse ancienne, pl. 152.

[65] See especially W. Wright, The Empire of the Hittites, 8vo, 2nd ed., London, 1886; Perrot and Chipiez, Hist. de l’art dans l’antiquité, t. iv., pp. 483 to 812; O. Hirschfeld, Die Felsen-reliefs in Kleinasien und das Volk der Hittiter (Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie, 1886).

[66] Perrot and Chipiez, op. cit., t. iv., p. 547.

[67] Perrot and Chipiez, op. cit., t. iv., p. 549.