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DECORATION. We are again reminded of a motive we have met in Assyria by the balustrade-like ornament which occurs on some stone troughs found at Oum-el-Awamid (Fig. 80). They are very like the little columns on one of the finest of the Ninevite ivories. We find the same contrasts in both, between the expansive width of the

flower-like capitals and the neck which seems strangled by the cords which make several turns about the shaft. The same forms occur on a fragmentary relief found in the neighbourhood of Tyre, not far from Adloun, and now in the Louvre (Fig. 81). On this little slab we can distinguish the left hand and knees of an enthroned personage, who grasps an object which we can hardly

define. Before him rises a kind of standard with a censer at the top, which must have been of bronze. In its construction it