[253] Sennacherib caused his sculptors to celebrate the campaign in which he subdued the peoples of Lower Chaldæa. Like the Arab of to-day, they took refuge when pursued among the marshes in the neighbourhood of the Persian Gulf (Layard, Monuments, second series, plate 25). The light, flat-bottomed boats, with their sharp prows, are shown pushing through the reeds, and bending them down into the water to clear a passage.
[254] The slabs taken from this corridor are now in the Kouyundjik Gallery of the British Museum, and numbered from 37 to 43. See also Layard’s Monuments, second series, plates 7–9.
[255] See Layard, Monuments, second series, plates 47–49. &c.
[256] These sculptures were discovered and described for the first time by M. Rouet, the immediate successor of M. Botta, at Mossoul (Journal Asiatique, 1846, pp. 280–290). More detailed descriptions will be found in Layard, Discoveries, pp. 207–216, and in Place, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 161–164. The latest and most complete translation of the Bavian inscriptions, or rather of the one inscription that is repeated in three different places, has been given by M. Pognon, under the following title: L’Inscription de Bavian, texte, Traduction et Commentaire philologique avec trois Appendices et un Glossaire, 1 vol. 8vo. in two parts, 1879 and 1880 (in the Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes-Études).
[257] Layard, Discoveries, p. 216.
[258] Layard tells us that near the entrance to the gorge, and under the alluvial earth carried down by the stream, he found the remains of carefully-built stone walls, but he is silent as to the character of the building to which they may have belonged. (Discoveries, p. 215.)
[259] See the vignette on page 214 of Layard’s Discoveries.
[260] Perrot and Guillaume, Exploration archéologique de la Galatie, vol. i. pp. 367–373, and vol. ii. plates 72–80.
[261] Layard, Discoveries, p. 210.
[262] Layard, Discoveries, p. 211.