[283] Ibid. plates 43 and 53.
[284] Botta, Monument, &c. plate 62.
[285] Ibid. plates 61 and 76, and vol. v. p. 124.
[286] See especially at the south end of the Nimroud Gallery, the upper part of a male figure, numbered 17 a. The black of the hair and beard has preserved much of its strength.
[287] “At Kouyunjik there were no traces whatever of colour.” Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 310.
[288] Heuzey, Catalogue des Figurines en terre cuite du Musée du Louvre, p. 18.
[289] Heuzey, Catalogue, &c. p. 19.
[290] Ibid. p. 20. Layard also found many of these blue statuettes at Khorsabad (Discoveries, p. 357).
[291] These fragments were found by Layard in one of the small temples at Nimroud (Discoveries, pp. 357, 358).
[292] M. Sully Prudhomme has lately embodied this idea in his verses addressed to the Venus of the Louvre (Devant la Vénus de Milo in the Revue politique for 6 January, 1883):—