[306] Place, Ninive, vol. i. p. 314.
[307] In the British Museum there are some smaller bronze objects of the same kind from the palace of Sennacherib. Others were found by M. Place in the palace of Sargon (Ninive, plate 70, fig. 6), so that they must have been in frequent use.
[308] Layard (Discoveries, p. 163) gives a sketch of one of these objects. Its internal diameter is about five inches, and its weight 6 lbs. 3¾ oz. These rings are now in the British Museum.
[309] Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. pp. 53-55.
[310] Botta, Monument de Ninive, plates 149 and 150. See also Layard, Discoveries, p. 131, and Fergusson, History of Architecture, vol. i. p. 185 (2nd edition).
[311] Loftus, Travels and Researches, p. 175.
[312] M. Place offers a similar explanation of the engaged columns that were found in many parts of the palace at Khorsabad (Ninive, vol. ii. p. 50). He has brought together in a single plate all the examples of pilasters and half columns that he encountered in that edifice. Similar attempts to imitate the characteristic features of a log house are found in many of the most ancient Egyptian tombs. See Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 62 and fig. 37.
[313] See, for instance, in Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. figs. 123, 124, 201, and in vol. ii. pp. 55-64, and figs. 35-37 and 139.
[314] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. p. 117.
[315] We here give a résumé of M. Place's observations on this point. He made a careful study of these crenellations. Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 53-57.