[27] See especially J. Menant, _La Glyptique orientale_, t. i., and L. de Clercq, _Catalogue de sa collection_, fasc. 1-3. [28] Heuzey, _Un palais chaldéen_, p. 91. [29] _History of Art in Assyria and Chaldæa_, vol. i., p. 228 f. [Eng Ed.] [30] Lenormant and Babelon, _Hist. Anc. de l’Orient_, vol. iv., p. 411. [31] xvi., 1, 5. [32] Lenormant and Babelon, _Hist. anc. de l’Orient_, v. iv., p. 412. [33] What Aristotle really says is: “It is not a wall that makes a city, for the Peloponnese might be enclosed within a wall. Babylon, perhaps, is a city of such sort, and so is any other, the walls of which enclose a nation rather than a city. They say that when Babylon had been taken for three days part of the inhabitants were unaware of the fact.”--Pol. i. 3. [34] _Exp. en Mésopotamie_, t. i., p. 194 ff. [35] _Cun. Inscr. and the O.T._, vol. i., p. 79. [36] Heuzey, _Un Palais Chaldéen_, p. 81. [37] Menant, _Remarques sur les portraits des rois assyro-chaldéens_, 1882. [38] Layard, _Monuments of Nineveh_, vol. i., pl. 26, and _passim_. [39] Perrot and Chipiez, _History of Art in Chaldæa and Assyria_, vol. i., p. 257. [40] Herod. ii. 106 [41] Perrot and Chipiez, _History of Art in Chaldæa and Assyria_, vol. ii., p. 294 ff. [42] Cf. Ezekiel xxiii. 14. [43] L. Heuzey, _Les Figurines de terre cuite du Musée du Louvre_, p. 1. [44] _Nineveh and Babylon_, p. 358. [45] Heuzey, _op. cit._, p. 2. [46] _History of Art in Chaldæa and Assyria_, vol. ii., p. 217. [47] Perrot and Chipiez, _History of Art_, vol. ii., p. 143. [48] Perrot and Chipiez, _op. cit._, vol. ii., p. 319 ff. [49] Wrongly called Sennacherib by M. Babelon. [50] E. Müntz, _La Tapisserie_, p. 22. [51] See especially J. Menant, _La Glyptique Orientale_, t. ii. [52] For the recent discoveries at Susa and discussion of Elamite remains, see Chapter IX. of this volume. [53] Heuzey, in the _Revue politique et littéraire_, 1886, p. 661. [54] _L’art antique de la Perse_, t. i., p. 8. [55] _L’art antique de la Perse_, t. ii., p. 37. [56] Dieulafoy, _op. cit._, t. ii., p. 80. [57] Pendentives are generally held to have been introduced into architecture several centuries after our era, and to have first appeared in a perfect form in the Church of St. Sophia at Constantinople, the dome of which, as Procopius says (_De Ædificiis_, Bk. I., c. i.) seems to hang by a golden chain from the sky. [58] _Revue politique et littéraire_, 1886, p. 661. [59] _Op. cit._, t. iii., p. 186. [60] Lenormant and Babelon, _Hist. anc. de l’Orient_, t. vi., p. 18, f. [61] The existence of a supreme god, Ilu, among the Assyrian deities is not proved, though assumed by M. Babelon, who supposes that the winged figure on the Assyrian bas-reliefs is Ilu. [62] Coste and Flandin, _La Perse ancienne_, pl. 164. [63] Dieulafoy, _L’art antique de la Perse_, t. iv., p. 79. [64] Compare Flandin and Coste, _Perse ancienne_, pl. 152.