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334 A History of Art in Ciiai n.i a and Assyria. palmettes united by an undulating line, a motive which is no less Assyrian than the first (Vol. I., Figs. 128, 138, 139, etc.). In Fig. 217 we reproduce a cup on which its original mounting, or ring by which it was suspended, is still in place. The whole Fig. 217. — Bronze cup. Diameter n inches ; from Layard. of the decoration is pure Assyrian. The rosette is exactly similar to many of those found on the enamelled bricks (see Vol. I., Figs. 122, 123). In the first of the three zones, gazelles march in file ; in the second, a bull, a gazelle, an ibex, and a
