NOTES

[280] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 82.

[281] This chamber is 7 feet long, 3 feet 7 inches wide, and 5 feet high. Taylor, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 272.

[282] Strabo, xvi. 1, 5. Diodorus, ii. 10.

[283] Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 170-182 and 256-259, vol. iii. plates 9-18.

[284] Place, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 2.

[285] Place, Ninive, vol. i. p. 128.

[286] Layard, Nineveh, vol. i. p. 134; vol. ii. pp. 79 and 261. Discoveries, pp. 162-165.

[287] Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 269-280 and plates 38 and 39.

[288] We have endeavoured to combine M. Thomas's longitudinal elevation, vertical section, and transverse section (Place, Ninive, plate 38), in our single cut.