Note 296 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 3)

We have derived most of the information contained in this chapter from the works of M. Ménant, who, for many years past has given more study to these cylinders than any other savant. We have found his Essai sur les Pierres gravées de l’Asie occidentale of special value, but we have also made use of the various reports he has published in the Archives des Missions, relating to the foreign collections visited by him, and of his papers read before the Académie des Inscriptions. We have, moreover, consulted the following works, not, we hope, without profit: De Gobineau, Catalogue d’une Collection d’Intailles asiatiques (Revue archéologique, new series, vol. xxvii.); E. Soldi, Les Cylindres babyloniens, leur Usage et leur Classification (ibid. vol. xxviii.); and Les Arts méconnus, by the same author (1 vol. 8vo. Leroux, 1881), chapter i., Les Camées et les Pierres gravées.