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  WORLD 
  ARCHEOLOGY 
  CASANOWICZ. 
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  of 
  Assyria." 
  Underneath 
  is 
  seen 
  his 
  chariot 
  with 
  the 
  state 
  umbrella 
  

   and 
  attendants. 
  Before 
  the 
  King 
  stands 
  an 
  official 
  followed 
  by 
  

   soldiers, 
  who 
  introduces 
  a 
  file 
  of 
  captives. 
  Overhead 
  is 
  an 
  inscription 
  

   reading 
  : 
  " 
  Sennacherib, 
  King 
  of 
  the 
  World, 
  King 
  of 
  Assyria, 
  seat- 
  

   ing 
  himself 
  upon 
  his 
  throne, 
  inspected 
  the 
  booty 
  of 
  Lachish." 
  

  

  Leaving 
  the 
  Pavilion 
  and 
  entering 
  the 
  passage 
  adjoining 
  it, 
  there 
  

   is 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  side 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  Kensington 
  cases 
  with 
  reliefs 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  them. 
  From 
  west 
  to 
  east 
  : 
  

  

  14. 
  Collection 
  of 
  Mediterranean 
  pottery 
  (see 
  above, 
  p. 
  442). 
  

  

  15. 
  Antique 
  iridescent 
  glassware 
  (see 
  above, 
  p. 
  443). 
  (PI. 
  17.) 
  

   Persian 
  bas-relief, 
  representing 
  a 
  warrior 
  from 
  Persepolis. 
  (PI. 
  

  

  18.) 
  

  

  16. 
  Haremhab 
  (or 
  Heruemheb). 
  He 
  was 
  the 
  second 
  successor 
  of 
  

   Tutankhamen 
  and 
  the 
  last 
  king 
  of 
  the 
  eighteenth 
  dynasty. 
  Cast 
  of 
  

   the 
  original 
  of 
  granite 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  Cairo, 
  Egypt. 
  

  

  Assyrian 
  bas-relief, 
  representing 
  two 
  warriors 
  with 
  bows 
  and 
  

   arrows. 
  

  

  17. 
  Antique 
  iridescent 
  glassware. 
  

  

  18. 
  Egyptian 
  antiquities. 
  Collection 
  of 
  necklaces, 
  scarabs, 
  ushdbti 
  

   figurines, 
  pendants, 
  potteries, 
  mummy 
  fragments, 
  terra-cotta 
  lamps, 
  

   coins 
  of 
  Alexander 
  the 
  Great 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  Ptolemies. 
  The 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  was 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  John 
  Chandler 
  Bancroft 
  Davis 
  when 
  he 
  

   was 
  United 
  States 
  Minister 
  to 
  Germany, 
  1873-1877, 
  and 
  presented 
  

   by 
  the 
  executors 
  of 
  his 
  estate, 
  James 
  Gore 
  King, 
  of 
  New 
  York; 
  

   Gracie 
  King 
  Kichards, 
  of 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C. 
  ; 
  and 
  Bancroft 
  Davis, 
  

   of 
  Boston, 
  Massachusetts. 
  

  

  Opposite, 
  or 
  south 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  passage, 
  from 
  east 
  to 
  west 
  : 
  

  

  19. 
  Torso 
  of 
  Panammu 
  II. 
  Cast 
  from 
  the 
  dolorite 
  original, 
  

   found 
  at 
  Senjirli, 
  Asia 
  Minor, 
  and 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  Berlin. 
  

   Originally 
  about 
  9 
  feet 
  high. 
  On 
  the 
  lower 
  portion 
  is 
  an 
  inscription 
  

   in 
  relief 
  of 
  23 
  lines 
  in 
  the 
  old 
  Aramaean 
  language. 
  Height, 
  6 
  

   feet 
  2 
  inches. 
  The 
  inscription 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  statue 
  was 
  erected 
  by 
  

   Bar-Rekub 
  " 
  before 
  Hadad, 
  El, 
  Rakubel, 
  Shemesh 
  (sun 
  god), 
  and 
  all 
  

   the 
  other 
  gods 
  of 
  Ja'di 
  " 
  to 
  his 
  father 
  Panammu, 
  son 
  of 
  Bar-Sur, 
  

   King 
  of 
  Sam'al, 
  a 
  region 
  situated 
  between 
  the 
  Orontes 
  and 
  Taurus 
  

   in 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  the 
  Hittites; 
  also 
  that, 
  in 
  an 
  uprising 
  against 
  

   Sam'al, 
  Bar-Sur, 
  grandfather 
  of 
  Bar-Rekub, 
  fell 
  a 
  victim, 
  together 
  

   with 
  seventy 
  of 
  his 
  house 
  (compare 
  Judges 
  ix, 
  1-5), 
  Panammu 
  

   alone 
  surviving. 
  A 
  famine 
  ensued 
  (II 
  Kings 
  vii, 
  1). 
  With 
  the 
  

   assistance 
  of 
  Tiglathpileser 
  III, 
  tranquillity 
  was 
  restored, 
  Panammu 
  

   placed 
  on 
  the 
  throne 
  of 
  his 
  father, 
  and 
  food 
  and 
  drink 
  became 
  plen- 
  

   tiful. 
  Panammu 
  followed 
  him 
  on 
  his 
  expeditions, 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  which, 
  

   before 
  Damascus, 
  he 
  died. 
  His 
  body 
  was 
  carried 
  to 
  his 
  native 
  place, 
  

   and 
  his 
  son, 
  Bar-Rekub, 
  who 
  set 
  up 
  this 
  stele, 
  was 
  appointed 
  by 
  the 
  

  

  