2.] The material of the vessels is fine, though generally rather yellow in tone.

The shapes present no great novelty, being for the most part such as are found both in the old Chaldaean tombs, and in ordinary Roman sepulchres.

Among the most elegant are the funeral urns discovered by M.
Botta at Khorsabad, which are with a small opening at top, a short and very scanty pedestal, and two raised rings, one rather delicately chased, by way of ornament.

[PLATE LXXXI., Fig.

2.] Another graceful form is that of the large jars uncovered at Nimrud [PLATE LXXXII., Fig.
1], of which Mr.Layard gives a representation.