Note 145 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE.

We may also quote the following monuments as examples of Assyrian statues: 1. The fragment of a seated statue found at Kaleh-Shergat, which we figure on page 127 (Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. pp. 51–52). 2. The head of a statue of Istar, discovered at Kouyundjik (Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 248 and 430). This head is about nine inches high. 3. Fragment of a colossal statue of shelly limestone, found in the same place by the same explorer (ibid. p. 430). It consists only of a part of the left shoulder. There is an inscription on the back tracing the descent of Assurbanipal from Sargon.