It consists of two pairs of ibex horns, placed one over the other.

With this maybe compared another (No.

IV.).

the most remarkable of all, where we have first a single pair of ibex horns, and then, at the summit, a complete figure of an ibex very graphically portrayed.
[Illustration: PLATE 61] The beauty of Assyrian patterning has been already noticed.

Patterned work is found not only on the enamelled bricks, but on stone pavement slabs, and around arched doorways leading from one chamber to another, where the patterns are carved with great care and delicacy upon the alabaster.