Note 221 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 2)

See De Longperier, Monuments antiques de la Chaldée decouverts et rapportés par M. de Sarzec (Œuvres, vol. i. p. 335). The learned archæologist, of whom the writing of this paper was one of the last occupations, saw in this fragment evidence of worship rendered to the great rivers that watered and fertilized Mesopotamia; the double stream of water is the symbol of Naharaim, or “the two rivers,” a symbol whose presence in other objects from the same region he points out.