3.] One or two stags' heads have likewise been found, designed and wrought with much spirit and delicacy.

[PLATE LXXVII., Fig.

3.] It is remarked that several of the specimens show not only a considerable acquaintance with art, but also an intimate knowledge of the method of working in ivory.

One head of a lion was "of singular beauty," but unfortunately it fell to pieces at the very moment of discovery.
It is possible that some of the objects here described may be actual specimens of Egyptian art, sent to Sargon as tribute or presents, or else carried off as plunder in his Egyptian expedition.

The appearance, however, which even the most Egyptian of them present, on a close examination, is rather that of Assyrian works imitated from Egyptian models than of genuine Egyptian productions.