2]).
Occasionally there is a curious combination of the two styles, as in the specimen [PLATE LXXX., Fig.

1]--the most interesting yet discovered--where the dresses of the two main figures are coarsely outlined in yellow, while the remainder of the design is very lightly sketched in a brownish black.
[Illustration: PLATE 80] The size of the designs varies considerably.

Ordinarily the figures are small, each brick containing several; but sometimes a scale has been adopted of such a size that portions of the same figure must have been on different bricks.

A foot and leg brought by Mr.Layard from Nimrud must have belonged to a man a foot high; while part of a human face discovered in the same locality is said to indicate the form to which it belonged, a height of three feet.

Such a size as this is, however, very unusual.
It is scarcely necessary to state that the designs on the bricks are entirely destitute of _chiaroscuro_.