[360] Diodorus, ii. viii. 4.
[361] Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 91, 92. We borrow figs. 163–8 from Professor Rawlinson. Some of these, he tells us, are from drawings by Mr. Churchill, the artist who accompanied Loftus into Chaldæa and Susiana; the rest are taken from objects now in the British Museum.
[362] We borrow the figures numbered 183, 184, 186 and 187, from the plate accompanying a remarkable paper by M. Helbig, in which he points out the similarities that exist between this Ninevite pottery, and the oldest pottery of Attica and the Ægæan islands (Osservazioni sopra la provenienza della decorazione geometrica, in the Annales de l’Institut de Correspondance archéologique, 1875, p. 221). The tracings reproduced by M. Helbig (tavola d’aggiunta, H), were made by Mr. Murray. Our figures 182, 185, and 188 were taken from drawings made by myself in the British Museum.
[363] Place, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 150.
[364] Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, 2nd edition, 1873, p. 91.
[365] Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, 2nd edition, 1873, p. 104.
[366] The British Museum possesses some fine examples of these coffins; they were transported to England by Loftus, who had some difficulty in bringing them home intact. See Loftus, Travels and Researches, &c., p. 204; Layard, Discoveries, pp. 558–561; and Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, pp. 105–107. In the upper parts of the mounds at Warka and Niffer, where these slipper-shaped coffins were packed in thousands, fragments of glazed earthenware, plates and vases, were also found; they seemed to date from the same period.
[367] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 375.
[368] Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 173. Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 389–391.
[369] On this subject see a note by Sir David Brewster (?), appended to Layard, Discoveries, pp. 674–676.