hich spanned the branch of the Euphrates
flowing between the two halves of the city, so that the
waters flowed over it. See "Chaldea and Susiana," by
Loftus, and Sir G. W. Gore Ouseley's translation of a
Persian version of "The Book of Victories." Alexander is
said to have been buried in a glass coffin. (See
Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," ii. p. 102, note +.)

[195] Yates, pp. 367-70; Rock, p. xxvi.

[196] "Aura intexere eadem Asia invenit Attalus Rex unde
nomen Attalicis."--Pliny, viii. c. 48, and Yates, p.
371. The reign of Attalus II. was B.C. 159-188.

[197] "And they did beat the gold into plates, and cut
it into wires, and work it into the blue, and the
purple, and the fine linen."--Exod. xxxix.

[198] See Yates, p. 371; and Bock, xxxiii.

[199] Pliny, xxxiii. In the Museum at Leyden there is a
shred of gold cloth found in a tomb at Tarquinia, in
Etruria. This is a compactly woven covering over bright
yellow silk.

[200] Gold wire is still worked through leather at
Guzerat. See Birdwood, p. 284, Ed. 1880. Marco Polo
mentions this embroidery 600 years ago. Bk. iii. chap.
xxvi. (Yule). The hunting cuirass of Assurbanipal (pl.
1) appears to be so worked, and of such materials. Also
see Wilkinson, "Ancient Egyptians," vol. iii. p. 130.
This gold for weaving was beaten into shape with
hammers.

[201] Pope Eutichinus, in the third century, buried many
martyrs in golden robes.

[202] "Liber Pontificalis," t. ii. p. 332.

[203] See Rock, pp. xxvii, xxxv; and Parker's "Use of
the Levitical Colours," p. 49.

[204] See Yates, p. 376.

[205] Rock, p. xxxv. The toga picta, or trabea, part of
the official dress of her sons.

[206] Hoveden's "Annal." p. 481, Ed. Savile; Rock, p.
xxx.

[207] See "Archaeologia," 1880, pp. 317, 322; also Pl.
74, No. 20 (_post_).

[208] Bock, "L. Gewaender," taf. ix. vol. i.

[209] Rock, p. xxxvii.

[210] Ciclatoun, according to Rock, p. xxxix, is a
common Persian name for such tissues in the East. This,
in common with nasick, nak, and many other beautiful
tissues, was wrought in gold with figures of birds and
beasts.--Yule's "Marco Polo," ed. 1875, i. p. 65.

Dr. Rock quotes the old ballad,--

"In a robe right royall bowne,
Of a red ciclatoune,
Be her fader's s