ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



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to represent flames, but it is strange that he should 

 have done so when in other cases the same, or another 



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Fig. 62. — Fortress in flames. (Fig. 218, vol. 2. Perrot and 

 Chipiez, ' Histoire de I'Art. ') 



artist, delineated flames in a more graphic way. Fig. 



62 shows another fortress on fire, but the flames are 



delineated much as we would do 



them now. And again, fig. 6^ shows 



forms of flames, which are more 



natural. Moreover, one of the latter 



in Layard's Monuments is colored 



red, so that there is no mistaking 



what it was meant for. 



On the whole I am inclined to look upon the stags' 

 horns on the fortress as meant for horns, which the 

 people were in the habit of putting in all sorts of 

 places as a kind of protection from evil eyes and evil 

 spirits. Even supposing that Bonomi's interpretation be 

 the right one, it would show that horns were things 



Fig. 63.— pi. 55. pi. 61 

 of Layard's ' Monu- 

 ments.' 



