[430] Layard, Monuments, second series, plate 62, B.
[431] Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. chapter vii.; Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. pp. 338–348.
[432] Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, &c., vol. i. pp. 408–410.
[433] Botta, Monument de Ninive, plate 159. In this plate the chief types of weapons figured in the reliefs at Khorsabad are brought together.
[434] Boscawen, Notes on an Ancient Assyrian Bronze Sword bearing a Cuneiform Inscription (in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. iv. p. 347. with one plate).
[435] Botta, Monument de Ninive, plate 160.
[436] Sayce, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Van, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xiv. p. 653. Mr. Pinches tells me that there is a similar text on the hollow border of the shield reproduced in our Fig. 225. Nothing is now to be distinguished, however, but characters that may be read, “Great king, king of ——”.
[437] See vol. i. page 394.
[438] We cannot too often thank the keepers of the Oriental antiquities in the British Museum for the trouble they took in enabling us to give a figure of this hitherto unpublished monument. The fragments, which had not yet been pieced together or exhibited in the galleries, were arranged expressly for our draughtsman.
[439] Nos. 385–391 in De Longpérier’s catalogue. These objects came from the collection of Clot-Bey, which was formed in Egypt but contained many things of Syrian origin. De Longpérier did not hesitate, on the evidence of their style, to class these objects as Assyrian, and any one who examines the motives of their decoration will be of his opinion. See his Œuvres, vol. i. p. 166.