Fig. 227.—Woman reclining.
Fig. 228.—Woman reclining.
Fig. 229.—Pottery mask.
14. Musicians were less frequently represented in the Babylonian period than in the Greek period. They play the double flute (Fig. [222]) which is in use among the Arabs at the present day and known as the mutbak; the panpipe, a long lute with smaller or wider sounding-board (Figs. 223, 224); the oriental harp (Fig. [225]), the tambourine (Fig. [226]), the cithara, and other instruments which will afford an interesting study for connoisseurs of musical instruments.
15. The figure seated on the censer has already (p. [257]) been described, also.
16. The ape (p. [234]).
17. Female figures, clothed and lying on the left side, belong exclusively to the Greek and Parthian periods. With the left arm they support themselves on a cushion, and the right arm rests on the hips. Like similar figures in alabaster (Fig. 132), they are frequently found in the graves (Figs. 227, 228).
