Note 339 — Chapter II · (continued 3)
Walter Armstrong translation
Loftus, Travels and Researches, p. 176. Layard, Discoveries, pp. 529, 651. Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 44. In the book of Daniel the hand that traces the warning words upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace traces them "upon the plaster of the wall" (Daniel v. 5).