[336] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 92, fig. 70.
[337] On the subject of these winged bulls see Fr. Lenormant, Les Origines de l'Histoire, vol. i. chap. 3.
[338] The bas-relief here reproduced comes from the palace of Assurbanipal at Kouyundjik. In the fragment now in the Louvre there are three stories, but the upper story, being an exact repetition of that immediately below it, has been omitted in our engraving.
[339] Loftus, Travels and Researches, p. 176. Layard, Discoveries, pp. 529, 651. Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 44. In the book of Daniel the hand that traces the warning words upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace traces them "upon the plaster of the wall" (Daniel v. 5).
[340] Place, Ninive, vol. i. p. 77.
[341] At Warka, however, Loftus found in the building he calls Wuswas a layer of plaster which was from two to four inches thick. (Travels, p. 176.)
[342] Place, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 77, 78.
[343] Place, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 25.
[344] Ibid. vol. i. pp. 141-146; vol. ii. pp. 79, 80; vol. iii. plates 36 and 37.
[345] Herodotus (Rawlinson's translation), i. 98.