[107] ‘Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus Berliner Privatbesitz,’ Berlin, 1899, 4to, pp. 170–173.
[108] Wallis: ‘Italian Ceramic Art — the Maiolica Pavement Tiles of the Fifteenth Century,’ London, 1902, 12mo, figs. 10–24.
[109] Owing to a mistake of the photographer, the figure of this jar is reversed.
[110] They are found again, slightly more elaborated, upon an albarello of the same series in the British museum. Another one belongs to an amateur in Berlin.
[111] According to Litta; Moreri gives different dates.
[112] They bear the stamp of a convent in that town.
[113] Pliny, Herodotus, and Strabo include as within the bounds of Assyria those countries over which its sway had at times ascendency; the whole of Babylonia, all Mesopotamia, a portion of Mount Zagroo, modern Kurdistan, all Syria as far as Cilicia, Judea, and Phoenicia, and during the seventh century B.C., Lydia, Cyprus, and Egypt on the west, and part of Media on the east, with Babylonia and part of Arabia on the south.
[114] Of the Vedas, the four religious books of the Hindus, three were composed about 1700 B.C. and the fourth much later. None of them were collected and written until between 1000 and 800 B.C.
[115] Zendavesta:—‘Zend’ is old Persian or Achæmenian, meaning commentary or explanation, and was the ‘Zend’ which accompanied the ‘Avesta,’ = the law or the word. The original text of the Avesta was not written by a Persian, as it was not couched in a language used in Persia, nor indeed were any existing Persian customs or practices sanctioned by its tenets. It was written in Media and in the language of Media by the priests of Ragha and Atropatine. It has been practically decided that the greater part of it was written before the third century B.C, while no part of it was written after the fourth century A.D.
[116] Reproduced from a photograph provided by the kindness of Dr. A. W. Mollerup, director of the national museum, Copenhagen.