[PLATE CXXI.] [Illustration: PLATE 131] In several instances we find bands of three musicians.

In one case all three play the lyre.

The musicians here are certainly captives, whom the Assyrians have borne off front their own country.

It has been thought that their physiognomy is Jewish, and that the lyre which they bear in their hands may represent that "kind of harp" which the children of the later captivity hung up upon the willows when they wept by the rivers of Babylon.

There are no sufficient grounds, however, for this identification.