A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Georges Perrot; Charles Chipiez

[330] National Library, No. 978.

[331] Ménant, Empreintes de Cachets assyro-chaldéens relevées au Musée britannique (Archives des Missions, 1882, p. 375), fig. 5.

[332] Ibid. fig. 25.

[333] A kneeling figure occurs on a contract dated from the seventh century, Ménant, ibid. p. 376, fig. 7. Several impressions in the London collection show us personages in the modern attitude of prayer before the figure of a god overshadowed by huge wings. Ibid. figs. 26 and 27.

[334] Ménant, Empreinte de Cachets, &c. fig. 65.

[335] De Luynes collection, No. 188. Diameter 1 inch.

[336] No. 986.

[337] Ibid. figs. 20–24, 27, 30, 31, 41–44.

[338] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pp. 290, 291.

[339] Ménant, Rapport sur les Cylindres du Musée britannique, p. 127.