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S A History of Art in Ciiald.ea and Assyria.

in the present day in the bazaars of Turkey, Persia, and India. More than once, when some Kurdish bey rode past him on his Tig. 241. — Bracelets ; from Layard. Fig. 242. — Ear-drop ; from Layard. Arab, Sir H. Layard felt as if he had seen a vision from one of the Ninevite reliefs. The leather stitched with bright Figs. 243, 244. — Ear-drops ; from Layard coloured threads, the housings of gaudy wool, the hawk's bells tinkling round the horse's neck, were all survivals from