Note 381 — Chapter II · (continued 4)

Botta gives examples of some of these bricks (Monument de Ninive, plates 155, 156). Among the motives there reproduced there is one that we have already seen in the bas-reliefs (fig. 67). It is a goat standing in the collected attitude he would take on a point of rock. The head of the ibex is also a not uncommon motive (Layard, Monuments, first series, plate 87, fig. 2; see also Botta).