[410] In the eighth chapter of the Discoveries, Layard gives a sort of inventory, rather desultory in form, perhaps, but nevertheless very instructive and valuable, of the principal objects found in the magazines—we have borrowed largely from these pages. The most important of the cups are reproduced, in whole or in part, in the plates numbered from 57 to 68 of the Monuments, second series. A complete and accurate study of the cups and other objects of the same kind discovered in Western Asia will be found in M. Albert Dumont’s Les Céramiques de la Grèce propre (pp. 112–129).
[411] Layard, Monuments, second series, plate 68.
[412] This platter is figured in Layard’s Monuments, plate 63, but our drawing was made from the original.
[413] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pp. 87–89.
[414] It is numbered 619 in the museum inventory. It bears an inscription in Aramaic characters.
[415] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. figs. 280, 281.
[416] Inscriptions of this kind have been found on five or six of the bronze platters in the British Museum. They are about to be printed in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, part ii., Inscriptiones Aramæa, vol. i.
[417] Thus, according to M. de Vogüé, who has examined the inscriptions upon the cups recently cleaned, three of the cups from Nimroud bear respectively the names of Baalazar (Baal protects him), Elselah (El pardons him) and Beharel (El has chosen him). Baalazar was a scribe.
[418] See above, p. 220, note 2.
[419] See Prisse, Histoire de l’Art egyptien, vol. ii. plate entitled Le Pharaon Khouenaten servi par la reine. The kind of saucer held by the queen is more like the Assyrian pateræ in shape.