In one place black bars have been introduced to ornament an antelope's horns.

On the older sculptures black was also the common color for sandals, which however were then edged with red.

The composition of the black is uncertain.
Browns upon the enamelled bricks are found to have been derived from, iron; but Mr.Layard believes the black upon the sculptures to have been, like the Egyptian, a bone black mixed with a little gum.
The ornamental metallurgy of the Assyrians deserves attention next to their sculpture.

It is of three kinds, consisting, in the first place, of entire figures, or parts of figures, cast in a solid shape; secondly, of castings in a low relief; and thirdly, of embossed work wrought mainly with the hammer, but finished by a sparing use of the graving tool.
[Illustration: PLATE 74] The solid castings are comparatively rare, and represented none but animal forms.

Lions, which seem to have been used as weights, occur most frequently, [PLATE LXXIV., Fig.