, recumbent, and apparently about to drink out of a cup
held in the left hand. [PLATE VI. Fig. 3.] The figure was clad in a
long coat of mail, with greaves on the legs and a helmet upon the
head. Others represented females; these had lofty head-dresses, which
sometimes rose into two peaks or horns, recalling the costume of English
ladies in the time of Henry IV. These figures were veiled and carefully
draped about the upper part of the person, but showed the face, and had
the legs bare from the knee downwards.

The jars, jugs, vases, and lamps greatly resembled those of the Assyrian
and Babylonian periods, but were on the whole more elegant and artistic.
The forms appended will give a tolerable idea of the general character
of these vessels. [PLATE VI. Fig. 4.] They were of various sizes, and
appear to have been placed in the tombs, partly as the offerings of
friends and well-wishers, partly with the more superstitious object of
actually supplying the deceased with the drink and light needful for him
on his passage from earth to the realms of the dead.

The glass bottles were, perhaps, lachrymatories. They had no peculiar
characteristics, but were almost exactly similar to objects of the same
kind belonging to the times of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. They
exhibited the same lovely prismatic colors, which have been so admired
in the glass of those kingdoms, an effect of decomposition, which,
elsewhere generally disfiguring, in the case of this material enhances
the original beauty of the object tenfold by clothing it in hues of the
utmost brilliance and delicacy.

The personal decorations consisted chiefly of armlets, bangles, beads,
rings, and ear-rings. They were in gold, silver, copper, and brass. Some
of the smaller gold ornaments, such as earrings, and small plates
or beads for necklaces and fillets, were "of a tasteful and elegant
design." The finger-rings were coarser, while the toe-rings, armlets,
and bangles, were for the most part exceedingly rude and barbarous.
Head-dresses in gold, tall and pointed, are said to have been found
occasionally; but the museums of Europe have not yet been able to secure
any, as they are usually melted down by the finders. Broad ribbons of
gold, which may have depended like strings from a cap, are commoner, and
were seen by Mr. Loftus. Altogether, the ornaments indicated a strong
love of personal display, and the possession of considerable wealth, but
no general diffusio