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

by Georges Perrot; Charles Chipiez

[370] Layard, Discoveries, p. 197.

[371] Layard, Nineveh, vol. i. p. 421; Discoveries, p. 197.

[372] Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. p. 574.

[373] A detailed description of this curious object will be found in a note supplied to Layard by Sir David Brewster, who made a careful examination of the lens (Discoveries, p. 197).

[374] See Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, &c., vol. i. pp. 95–97.

[375] On the richness of the metalliferous deposits about the head-waters of the Tigris and Euphrates, see vol. i. pp. 124, 125.

[376] Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. p. 98.

[377] Ibid.

[378] Ibid.

[379] Place, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 263.