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The eight plumes of which the ornament consists are each formed of three large leaves or loops and two small pendant ones, the latter affording a means of connecting each plume with those next to it. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 295-302. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 302, 303. Two much better examples of this same work may be seen in the Assyrian basement-room of the British Museum.

In the fragment now in the Louvre there are three stories, but the upper story, being an exact repetition of that immediately below it, has been omitted in our engraving. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, p. 176. LAYARD, Discoveries, pp. 529, 651. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 44. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 77.

PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, vol. i. p. 236; LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 261. LOFTUS, Warka, its Ruins, &c. p. 10. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 29 and 248. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 58. See also TAYLOR on "Mugheir," &c. At Birs-Nimroud these conduits are about nine inches high and between five and six wide.

See, for instance, in Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. figs. 123, 124, 201, and in vol. ii. pp. 55-64, and figs. 35-37 and 139. Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. p. 117. We here give a résumé of M. PLACE'S observations on this point. He made a careful study of these crenellations. Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 53-57. See M. PLACE'S diagrams, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 54. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 53.

See our History of Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. chap. 1, § 1. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 120-122, and vol. iii. plate 73. In this connection Sir H. LAYARD makes an observation to which the attention of the artist should be drawn. History of Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 95. Ibid. vol. i. p. 397, fig. 230; and vol. ii. p. 105, fig. 84.

We should have reproduced this composition in colour had the size of our page allowed us to do so on a proper scale. M. Place was unable to give it all even in a double-page plate of his huge folio. PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plates 23-31. Layard, Monuments, 2nd series, plates 53, 54. Ibid. plate 55. GEO. SMITH, Assyrian Discoveries, p. 79.

For an engraving of it see our chapter on Chaldæan sculpture. See an article published by M. J. HALÉVY in the Revue archéologique, vol. xliv. p. 44, under the title: L'Immortalité de l'Âme chez les Peuples sémitiques. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 184. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, pp. 198, 199.

The Louvre possesses an Assyrian brick rather more than 17-1/2 inches square. VITRUVIUS, 1. ii. ch. 3. PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, vol. i. p. 225. The vault of the gallery discovered by LAYARD in the centre of the tower that occupied a part of the mound of Nimroud was constructed in the same fashion. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, p. 126.

The reader may also consult the small volume contributed by M. J. MÉNANT to the Bibliothèque oriental elzévirienne under the title: La Bibliothèque du Palais de Ninive. 1 vol. 18mo., 1880 Ernest Leroux. HERODOTUS, i. 106.

Fez was already a very ancient city before the Mohammed Anuabi of the Mussulmen, and Joseph, in his A. J., mentions a city of Mauritania; the prophet Nahum speaks of it also, when he addresses Ninive, he presents it as an example for No Ammon. He enumerates its districts and cities, and says, Fut and Lubim, Fez and Lybia, &c.