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regarding this cone-like object appears to have then 

 gone no further. 



In examining the Assyrian sculptures and Layard's 

 drawings, however, I thought that another view might 

 perhaps be taken of this cone-fruit. It resembled a 



Fig. 28. — {a) winged figures of the Monuments, either 

 two-winged or four-winged, {fi) winged figure of 

 pi. 34, first series, Layard's ' Monuments of Nineveli.' 



citron. Moreover, in pi. 9, of Layard's ' Monuments of 

 Nineveh' (new series) two men forming part of a pro- 

 cession are shown pompously carrying in their hands 

 something like a pine-apple. Now this cannot be a 

 pine-apple, because there is reason to believe that the 



