[390] E. Flandin, Voyage archéologique.
[391] Layard, Discoveries, pp. 198, 199.
[392] In 1882 these fragments were in the Nimroud central saloon. In the Assyrian side room, close to the door, there is another throne whose bronze casing might be restored almost in its entirety. Its decoration is less rich, however, than that of the thrones of which we have been speaking. A poor drawing of it may be found in George Smith’s Assyrian Discoveries, p. 432.
[393] This is not complete; about a third of it seems to be missing.
[394] Reasoning from the analogy of the ivories above mentioned, it might be thought that this fragmentary column belonged to the balustrade of a window. M. Dieulafoy, who first drew our attention to the fragment, provided us with a photograph of it, and is of that opinion.
[395] In Botta, Monument de Ninive, plate 164, a bronze bull’s head is figured which must have been used as the arm of a chair.
[396] This motive was by no means rare. Some more examples will be found reproduced in Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 301. At Malthaï there are human figures between the uprights of the throne on which the second deity is seated. They may be seen more clearly in Place’s large plate (No. 45), than in our necessarily small engraving.
[397] 1 Kings x. 18.
[398] Layard, Discoveries, p. 198; Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 431, 432.
[399] George Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, p. 432.