[380] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pp. 303–305 and 379.
[381] Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 84–89, and plates 70, 71.
[382] A certain number of iron implements are exhibited in the British Museum (Kouyundjik Gallery, case E); they were found for the most part at Nimroud, by Sir H. Layard (Discoveries, pp. 174 and 194). Among objects particularly mentioned by him are feet of chairs, tables, &c., mattocks and hammers, the heads of arrows and lances, and a double-handled saw 62 inches long.
[383] Place, Ninive, vol. i. p. 264 and plate 71; figs. 5, 6 and 7.
[384] This is formally stated by Dr. Percy, who furnished Layard with a long note upon the composition of the Assyrian bronzes (Discoveries, p. 670). At Nimroud, the latter found helmets and cuirasses of iron with surface ornaments of bronze (Nineveh, vol. i. p. 341). He speaks of this proceeding as characteristic of Assyrian metal-work (Discoveries, p. 191).
[385] To the evidence of Layard, which we have already had occasion to quote on this point, we may add that of Rich (Kurdistan, vol. i. pp. 176 and 222).
[386] Layard, Discoveries, chapter viii.
[387] See Dr. Percy’s note, at the end of the Discoveries, p. 670.
[388] Layard, Discoveries, pp. 176–178.
[389] Nahum, ii. 9.