We are again reminded of a motive we have met in Assyria by the balustrade-like ornament which occurs on some stone troughs found at Oum-el-Awamid (Fig. 80).[1] They are very like the little columns on one of the finest of the Ninevite ivories.[2] We find the same contrasts in both, between the expansive width of the
flower-like capitals and the neck which seems strangled by the cords which make several turns about the shaft. The same forms occur on a fragmentary relief found in the neighbourhood of Tyre, not far from Adloun, and now in the Louvre (Fig. 81).[3] On this little slab we can distinguish the left hand and knees of an enthroned personage, who grasps an object which we can hardly
define. Before him rises a kind of standard with a censer at the top, which must have been of bronze. In its construction it