Note 256 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 3)

These sculptures were discovered and described for the first time by M. Rouet, the immediate successor of M. Botta, at Mossoul (Journal Asiatique, 1846, pp. 280–290). More detailed descriptions will be found in Layard, Discoveries, pp. 207–216, and in Place, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 161–164. The latest and most complete translation of the Bavian inscriptions, or rather of the one inscription that is repeated in three different places, has been given by M. Pognon, under the following title: L’Inscription de Bavian, texte, Traduction et Commentaire philologique avec trois Appendices et un Glossaire, 1 vol. 8vo. in two parts, 1879 and 1880 (in the Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes-Études).