Note 384 — Chapter IV · THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
Walter Armstrong translation
This is formally stated by Dr. Percy, who furnished Layard with a long note upon the composition of the Assyrian bronzes (Discoveries, p. 670). At Nimroud, the latter found helmets and cuirasses of iron with surface ornaments of bronze (Nineveh, vol. i. p. 341). He speaks of this proceeding as characteristic of Assyrian metal-work (Discoveries, p. 191).