[340] Soldi, Les Cylindres babyloniens (Revue archéologique, vol. xxviii.), p. 153.
[341] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. fig. 85.
[342] Layard, Discoveries, p. 281. A scarab of Amenophis III. has also been found. Layard also tells us that he found several scarabæi of Egyptian manufacture, while excavating at Nimroud, and others were brought to him which had been found in different parts of Mesopotamia.
[343] Account of the income and expenditure of the British Museum for 1878.
[344] In a recently published work (Kritik des Ægyptischen Ornaments, archäologische Studie, with two lithographic plates, Marburg, 8vo, 1883) Herr Ludwig von Sybel has investigated the influence exercised by what he calls Asiatic ornament upon Egyptian art, after the commencement of the second Theban empire. The impression left by his inquiry—which is conducted with much order and critical acumen—is that Egypt, by the intermediary of the Phœnicians, received more from Assyria and Chaldæa than she gave. This influence was exercised chiefly by the numerous metal objects imported into the Nile valley from western Asia, where metallurgy was more advanced and more active than in Egypt. We may have doubts as to some of Herr von Sybel’s comparisons, and may think he sometimes exaggerates the Asiatic influence, but none the less may his work be read both with profit and interest.
[345] See above, page 98.
[346] Layard, Monuments, first series, plate 7.
[347] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. chapter iv. § 1.
[348] Vol. I. Chapter II. § 7.
[349] The ornament reproduced in our Plate XIII. is borrowed from a plate of Layard’s Monuments (first series, plate 80), and the two subjects brought together in Plate XIV. are taken from plate 55 of the second series. Our Plate XV. brings together, on a smaller scale, the figures which occupy plates 29, 30 and 31 of Place’s Ninive.