[273] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. pp. 120–122.
[274] Flandin published in the Revue des deux Mondes (15 June, and 1 July, 1845), two papers under the general title of Voyage archéologique à Ninive, and headed severally L’Architecture assyrienne, and La Sculpture assyrienne. The assertion to which we have alluded will be found in the second of the two articles, at page 106.
[275] Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 178.
[276] Place, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 82, 83.
[277] Ibid. vol. iii. plate 46, No. 4.
[278] Botta (Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 178.) Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 310.
[279] Upon this question of polychromy in the reliefs, a very precise note of Layard’s may be consulted with profit (Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 312). The discussion has also been very judiciously summed up by Rawlinson (The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 357–365). One of the plates from which we may gather the best idea of how this sculpture must have looked when its colouring was intact, is that in which Layard gives a reproduction of one of the winged bulls as it appeared when first uncovered (Monuments, first series, plate 92).
[280] Botta, Monument de Ninive, plates 12 and 14.
[281] Place, Ninive, vol. i. p. 58.
[282] Botta, Monument de Ninive, plate 113.