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 Metal Dishes and Utensils. 325 through which a cord might be passed. As for the buckets that were used in the ritual of public worship, and that the sculptor put in the hands of the winged genii adoring the sacred tree (Vol. I., Figs. 4 and 8), they were certainly of bronze, ' 4 (ùTi: A ;.f».W Figs. 204, 205. — Metal vases. From Layard. both body and handle. Their forms are very elegant, and their walls are ornamented at the top and bottom with twisted and wavy lines, with palmettes and flowers both open and closed. In the example we figure (Fig. 206) the winged globe, which is ■ Fig. 206. — Metal bucket. From Layard. introduced just below the upper edge, attests the religious character of the object. 1 1 We should also mention another vase, shaped like the muzzle of a lion, which was used to take liquids out of a large crater set upon a stand (Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. i. plate 76. See also M. Botta's plate 162, where the chief examples from the bas-reliefs are figured).