[13] In a painting which represents a sacrifice to Isis, Ant. di Ercolano, ii. 60, a priest is seen fanning the fire upon the altar with a triangular flabellum, such as is still used in Italy. (Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.)
[14] Sir George Birdwood, Society of Arts, 1903.
[15] George Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient World.
[16] Rawlinson.
[17] 2 Kings i. 2, 3, 6, 16.
[18] Pausanias, Frazer, vol. iii, 558.
[19] ‘The fly-whisk in the picture is introduced because flies were held to be creatures of Beel-zebub, the god of flies, and therefore to be driven away.’ (Letter of Mr. W. Holman Hunt to the author.)
[20] National Encyclopædia.
[21] Layard, Nineveh.
[22] Chambers’s Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.