It is smaller than life, being about three and a half feet high: the features are majestic, and well marked; the hair and beard are elaborately curled; the arms and hands are well shaped, and finished with care.

The dress is fringed elaborately, and descends to the ground, concealing all the lower part of the figure.

The only statues recovered besides these are two of the god Nebo, brought from Nimrud, a mutilated one of Ishtar, or Astarte, found at Koyunjik [PLATE LXIII., Fig.

3], and a tolerably perfect one of Sargon, which was discovered at Idalium, in the island of Cyprus.
The clay statuettes of the Assyrians possess even less artistic merit than their statues.

They are chiefly images of gods or genii, and have most commonly something grotesque in their appearance.