[376] Ibid. vol. iii. plate 14. We should have reproduced this composition in colour had the size of our page allowed us to do so on a proper scale. M. Place was unable to give it all even in a double-page plate of his huge folio.
[377] Place, Ninive, vol. iii. plates 23-31.
[378] Layard, Monuments, 2nd series, plates 53, 54. Elsewhere (Discoveries, pp. 166-168) Layard has given a catalogue and summary description of all these fragments, of which only a part were reproduced in the plates of his great collection.
[379] Ibid. plate 55.
[380] Geo. Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, p. 79.
[381] Botta gives examples of some of these bricks (Monument de Ninive, plates 155, 156). Among the motives there reproduced there is one that we have already seen in the bas-reliefs (fig. 67). It is a goat standing in the collected attitude he would take on a point of rock. The head of the ibex is also a not uncommon motive (Layard, Monuments, first series, plate 87, fig. 2; see also Botta).
[382] Fig. 1 of our Plate XIV. reproduces the same design, but with a more simple colouration.
[383] J. E. Taylor, Notes on Abou-Sharein, p. 407 (in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv.).
[384] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius, i. 25. Cf. Dionysius Periegetes, who says of Semiramis (v. 1007, 1008):
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