P. 48.--Upon Arvil, the ancient Arbela, and the likelihood of great discoveries in the mound which there rises 150 feet above the plain, see a contribution from Sir H. RAWLINSON to the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. i. new series, 1865, pp. 190–197. The mound is at present crowned by a Turkish fort. P. 176.--Herr FRITZ HOMMEL, one of the few non-French students of the remains from Tello, is no more inclined than we are to allow that the igneous rocks from which they are cut were brought from Egypt. He believes they were won from much nearer quarries, viz., on the borders of the Arabian plateau (_Die Vorsemitische Kulturen in Egypten und Babylonien_, pp. 211–223). Pp. 188–190.--In enumerating the few monuments of Chaldæan sculpture that we possess over and above those brought home by M. de Sarzec, we forgot to mention a small Babylonian head in hard alabaster, now in the Louvre (Fig. 262). Its workmanship resembles that of the two heads from Tello (Plate VII.), and some of the small heads from the same place. It is conspicuous for the same frank and decided modelling, but it belongs to the period when long beards were worn. P. 202.--To the list of Chaldæan sculptures we should, perhaps, add the rock-cut relief found by Sir H. RAWLINSON in the district of Zohab, about fifty leagues from the left bank of the Tigris, and to the north-west of Bagdad, near the village of Sheikhan. This district forms a part of the Persian province of Kirmanchah (_Journal of the Geographical Society_, vol. ix. p. 31). The relief occurs, it seems, on the high road between Babylon and Ecbatana, in the defile which is now called _Tak-i-Girrah_, one of the passes leading up through Mount Zagros to the plateau of Iran. There is a sketch of the relief from the pencil of Sir H. Rawlinson in the _Five Great Monarchies_ of his brother (vol. iii. p. 7). The king stands with his foot on the body of a conquered enemy. An individual, probably the royal general, presents two kneeling captives, who are held by a cord attached to rings put through their noses. More captives with ropes about their necks are carved on the kind of plinth upon which the main group is supported. The whole picture is about two feet wide and five high. Near it there is an apparently unfinished inscription in Babylonish cuneiform characters. The Chaldæan origin of the work is confirmed by the flounces on the general’s robe. In the same neighbourhood there are ruins which appear to date from a very early period. [Illustration: FIG. 262.--Fragment of a Chaldæan statuette. Louvre.]