. Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 .. . s to bring away as a work of art. This discovery caused me to expend much time andlabour in its vicinity, searching for the locality fromwhence it had been derived, and where I imagined theremight be other specimens of a similar kind. My work,however, resulted in total disappointment. CHAPTER XVII. New Styles of Decorative Art—Cone-work—Pot-work—Arab Aversionto Steady Labour—Blood-Feud between the Tuweyba and El-Bej—The Enco
. Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 .. . s to bring away as a work of art. This discovery caused me to expend much time andlabour in its vicinity, searching for the locality fromwhence it had been derived, and where I imagined theremight be other specimens of a similar kind. My work,however, resulted in total disappointment. CHAPTER XVII. New Styles of Decorative Art—Cone-work—Pot-work—Arab Aversionto Steady Labour—Blood-Feud between the Tuweyba and El-Bej—The Encounter Frustrated—The Feud Healed—Diversions afterthe Work of the Day. About one hundred feet north of tlie sculpture justdescribed, close to tlie southern angle of the Buwariyyaenclosure, I was fortunate in meeting with the remainsof an edifice, which bears analogy to that of Wuswas,and is, without exception, perfectly unique in its con-struction. Situated nearly on a level with the desert,it may also be regarded as of early origin, and althoughonly a fragment, it yields to none in interest. I hadfrequently noticed a number of small yellow terra-cotta. Terra-cotta Coue, natural size. cones, three inches and a half long, arranged in halfcircles on the surface of the mound, and was muchperplexed to imagine what they were. They provedto be part of a wall, thirty feet long, entirely composedof these cones imbedded in a cement of mud mixed* At E ou Plan. 188 WALL OF TERRA-COTTA CONES. with chopped straw. They were fixed horizontally withtheir circular bases facing outwards. Some had beendipped in red and black colour, and were arranged invarious ornamental patterns, such as diamonds, triangles,zigzags, and stripes, which had a remarkably pleasingeffect. The wall which these cones ornamented consisted
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