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Two of these enamelled letters are in the Louvre. See also upon this subject, PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 86. I have also seen some in the collection of M. Piot. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 236. Only two rafts arrived at Bassorah; eight left Mossoul, so that only about a fourth of the antiquities collected reached their destination in safety.
PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plates 24 and 31. "The painting," says M. OPPERT, "was applied to a kind of roughly blocked-out relief." De Longperier, Musée Napoléon III., plate iv. This palace was then inhabited for a part of the year by the Achemenid princes, of whom Ctesias was both the guest and physician. OPPERT, Expédition scientifique, vol. i. pp. 143, 144.
At Warka, however, LOFTUS found in the building he calls Wuswas a layer of plaster which was from two to four inches thick. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 77, 78. PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 25. Ibid. vol. i. pp. 141-146; vol. ii. pp. 79, 80; vol. iii. plates 36 and 37. PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 32. G. SMITH, Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 77, 78.
TAYLOR, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 272. STRABO, xvi. 1, 5. DIODORUS, ii. 10. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 170-182 and 256-259, vol. iii. plates 9-18. PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 2. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 128. LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. i. p. 134; vol. ii. pp. 79 and 261. Discoveries, pp. 162-165. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 269-280 and plates 38 and 39.
PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 264. Ibid. p. 265. RICH made similar observations at Bagdad. M. A. CHOISY, well known by his Essays on L'Art de bâtir chez les Romains, shows that the same method was constantly used by the Byzantine architects. See also Mr. STRABO, xvi. i. 5, Hoi oikoi kamarôtoi pantes dia tên axulian. Brick played, at least, by far the most important part in their construction.
And again: "I caused doors to be made in cypress, which has a good smell, and I had them adorned with gold and silver and fixed in the doorways. Right and left of those doorways I caused sedi and lamassi of stone to be set up, they are placed there to repulse the wicked." PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii, plate 21.
PLACE, Ninive, &c., vol. i. p. 233. Some of these fragments are in the Louvre. They are placed on the ground in the Assyrian Gallery. Their forms are too irregular to be fitted for reproduction here. But for the hollow in question, one might suppose them to be mere shapeless boulders. LAYARD noticed similar remains among the ruins of Babylon, Discoveries, &c., p. 528.
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