Note 436 — Chapter IV · THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
Walter Armstrong translation
Sayce, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Van, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xiv. p. 653. Mr. Pinches tells me that there is a similar text on the hollow border of the shield reproduced in our Fig. 225. Nothing is now to be distinguished, however, but characters that may be read, “Great king, king of ——”.