Page:A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria Vol 2.djvu/305

 Gems. 273 (Figs. 151 and 152). 1 The figure of the king standing before the altar with his right hand upon his bow resembles the Assurnazirpal in several of the Nimroud reliefs (see above, Fig. 140). The Balawat gates and other remains from the same Fig. 151. — Assyrian cylinder. Serpentine. National Library, Paris. & FlG. 152. — Assyrian cylinder. Serpentine. National library, Paris. time have already made us acquainted with the accessories of the act of worship figured in the last of these two cylinders, especially with the short column surmounted by a cone (Plate XII). Fig. 153. — Assyrian cylinder. British Museum. Drawn by Wallet. We now come to the epoch of the Sargonids with its still more refined and skilful art, of which an exquisite cylinder in the British Museum may be taken as an example (Fig. 153). The name of a personage called M usesinip has been read upon 1 These two cylinders are respectively numbered 937 and 942 in the Cabinet des Antiques. VOL. II. N N
 * U W