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Andrac in favour of that which is shown in figure 12. On the bit hilani, see chapter ir, below.
28. 13. C. J. GaddJ Stones of Assyria (London, 1936),
20. Anton Moortgat, Vordcrasiatischc Rollsicgcl Appendix, 3, figure 1, S.
(Berlin, 1940), nos. 591 and 592. 14. Thurcau-Dangin ct ah, Arslan Task (Paris,
p. 7* 21. Dclaportc, Catalogue des Cylindrcs Orientaux, 1931)* 4* and plate v, 2; and on Plan: no. 1 (por-
BibliothSquc Nationalc (Paris, 1910), no. 307. tico) and no. 2 (passage). For a fuller discussion see
Iraq, xrv, 1952, 120-31.
22. Moortgat, op. cit., no. 586.
15. Gadd, Stones of Assyria, figure opposite page p. 81
23. Zcitschrift fiir Assyriologic (N.F. xiv), 36 If.
30; Andrac, Das ivicdercrstehcndc Assur, plate 4.
figures 35-8.
16. E. Unger, Der Obelisk des Konigs Assurnasirpal p. 84
24. Op. cit., 43, Abb. 46, and Moortgat, Vorder-
I aits Nineveh (Mittcilungcn dcr Altoricntalischcn
asiatische Rollsicgcl, nos. 591 and 592.
Gcscllschaft vi, Leipzig, 1932). Landsberger
(Sa’ntal (Ankara, 1948), 24) dates the obelisk to the
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ninth century, while Unger assigns it to the eleventh
p. 73 I- Victor Place, Ninbve ct I’Assyrie, avec des essais century b.c. We follow Landsberger.
de rest aural ion par Felix Thomas (Paris, 1S67-70). His 17. F. Matz, Friilikretische Siegel (Berlin, 1928), p. 85
work continued that begun more haphazardly by 89-94.
Botta; P. E. Botta ct E. Flandin, Monuments de 18. H. Lavard, Monuments of Nineveh, n (London,
Ninbve (Paris, 1849-50). Gordon Loud, Khorsabad,
1S53), plates 53 and 54, shows fragments of bricks
1 (Chicago, 1936). or panels of polychrome glazed ware with battle
p. 76 2. Gordon Loud, Khorsabad, ir, 11 and plate 86; scenes, which were found in the soudi-east comer of
Revue d’Assyriologic, xxxm (1936), 153-60. the enclosure of Nimrud.
P- 77 3. K. Bittcl and R. Naumann, Bogazkoy, n (Ber­ 19. It is true that the mural paintings of earlier
lin, 1938), plate 25B. palaces may have included circumstantial battle
4. Encyclopedic photographique de Vart, n, 2-3. scenes; a few small fragments from Mari, showing
p. 7S 5. This plan was published by Place and Thomas wounded soldiers, suggest this. But there is no
(sec note 1 above) with the irregularities straight- reason to suppose that these had been more than
cncd out; in figure 34 the parts re-examined by the isolated scenes such as we find on the stele of
Iraq expedition of the Oriental Institute have been Eannatum or Sargon of Akkad. The dado of ortho-
marked in black. stats, on the other hand, offered very different possi-
6. Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods (Chicago, bilities, and in the palace of Assurnasirpal Hat Nim-
1948), 252-61. rud (883-59 B.c.) they have become the vehicle of a
true pictorial chronicle (Plates S4-9).
p. 79 7- These have been carefully studied by W.
Andrac, Coloured Ceramics from Assur (London, 20. E. A. Wallis Budge, Assyrian Sculpture in the p. S7
I925)» Ghaptcr 6: Enamelled knob-plates and knobs. British Museum (London, I9!4)> plate xvi, 1.
p. 80 8. Loud, Khorsabad, n, plates 49-50. 21. Op. cit., plates xxi, xxii.
9- Our illustration renders a base found in the 22. Op. cit., plates xvi, 2.
palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh; the bases from 23. Op. cit., plate xvii, 1.
Palace F are figured by Loud, Khorsabad, n, plate 48. 24. It has been rightly pointed out (H. A.
T c north Syrian examples are published in Von Grocncwcgcn-Frankfort, Arrest and Movement, 172)
use an, Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, 93, 142, and with how fine an understanding the reaction of the
I9^' horses to various conditions is rendered by Assyrian
10. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and artists.
Babylonia, n, para. 84.
25. Wallis Bydge, op. cit., plate xlii.
11. The use of figured column bases in Assyria is 26. H. R. Hall, Ancient History of the Near East, i
known, not only from texts like that we have just plate
XXV, I.
quoted, but also from a model for such a base; it
shows a human-headed cow with wings supporting 27. Wallis Budge, op. cit., plate xix.
a base of the ornamental Syrian type used also at 28. Op. cit., plate xi. p. SS
Khorsabad. The model was found at Nineveh 29. Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods, 259.
(Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the 30. Tliis relief has been frequently misinterpreted p. S9
British Museum, plate lviii). as the battle between Marduk and Tiamat.

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