Note 228 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 2)

According to Millin, who was the first to draw attention to this monument, its material is a black marble; it would be a mistake to call it basalt (Monuments antique inedits, vol. i. p. 60, note 6). The inscription on the Caillou Michaux has been translated by Oppert (Chronologie des Assyriens et des Babylonians, p. 40), and by Fox Talbot in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xviii. pp. 53–75. [There is a cast of this Caillou in the Assyrian Side Room at the British Museum.—Ed.]