The earrings are frequent in the form of a cross, and are sometimes delicately chased.

The armlets and bracelets generally terminate in the heads of rams or bulls, which seem to have been rendered with spirit and taste.
[Illustration: PLATE 77] [Illustration: PLATE 78] By one or two instances it appears that the Assyrians knew how to inlay one metal with another.

[PLATE LXXVI, Fig.

5.] The specimens discovered are scarcely of an artistic character, being merely winged scarabaei, outlined in gold on a bronze ground [PLATE LXXVI., Fig.

4.] The work, however, is delicate, and the form very much more true to nature than that which prevailed in Egypt.
The ivories of the Assyrians are inferior both to their metal castings and to their bas-reliefs.