sh Museum. Upon one fragment wemay read an inscription of Rushas, king of Urardha, or Armenia,in the time of Assurbanipal.2 This inscription, which is votive in its tenor, combines withthe examination of the objects themselves, to prove that theseshields are not real arms, made for the uses of war.… … Fig. 224.—Bronze cube damascened with gold ; from Layard. disfigured and flattened with the least shock. The edge alone isstrengthened by a hoop of iron. The shields are votive, andmust have been hung on the walls of a temple, like those we seethus suspended in a bas-relief of Sargon (Vol. I. Fig.…
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