Note 23 — IV BREAD AND SALT

See, for example, Layard's account of the murder of a Koordish Bey by Ibrâheem Agha, after the latter had risen from the table of the former (Nineveh and its Remains, I., 96 f.); also his account of other murderous violations of the rites of hospitality (Ibid., I., 107 f.; Nineveh and Babylon, p. 38).