rth to be thy
sail."--Ezekiel xxvii. 7. Egyptian sails were woven and
painted; sometimes they were blazoned with embroidered
patterns. The Phoenix was set there to indicate the
traveller's return. See Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians,"
vol. iii., ed. 1837, p. 211.

[441] See Semper, "Der Stil," vol. i. p. 273.

[442] The figure-painting of the nations we have spoken
of, successful so far as it concerns its special purpose
of exhibiting a clear and comprehensive chronicle of
events, is at the same time no more, so far as it
concerns its artistic effect, than a piece of tapestry
or embroidery done into stone, and can only be estimated
... as a piece of coloured wall decoration. Woltmann and
Woermann, "History of Painting," Eng. Trans., pp. 23-30.
See also Perrot and Chipiez, "Histoire de l'Art dans
l'Antiquite," for tile decorations at Nimroud; vol. ii.
p. 704.

[443] Compare this record with Solomon's veil for the
Temple, of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen
(2 Chron. iii. 14), and the hangings designed by
Bezaleel, of scarlet, blue, purple, and embroidered with
gold (Exod. xxxix. 2, 3, 5; see also Josephus, "Wars of
the Jews," Whiston's trans., p. 895).

[444] As cited from Abulfeda by Gibbon, chap. lii. ix.
p. 37, ed. 1797. When one is moved to pity, thinking of
the enforced labour of thousands of captive women,
fallen, perhaps, from high estate, and only valued for
the toil of their hands, it comforts one to believe that
they would hardly have produced beautiful works without
enjoying some happiness in the creation of that beauty.

[445] Yule's "Marco Polo," vol. i. p. 394, note 7.

[446] See Semper, "Der Stil," i. pp. 310, 311; Chares,
ap. Athen. xii. 54, p. 538.

[447] Semper's "Der Stil," i. p. 311; Athen. v. 25, p.
196.

[448] Phylarchus, ap. Athen. xii. 55, describes a
Persian tent in which were golden palm-trees, and vines
fruited with precious stones, under which the Persian
kings held their state. On an Assyrian sculpture at the
British Museum is seen Assurbanipal on a couch, the
queen opposite to him, under an arbour of jewelled
vines; unless it represents a rural entertainment, which
is unlikely.

[449] The art of the "tapezziere," "tapissier,"
"tapestry-hanger," is not a recognized one with us,
thou