Mural painting from the palace of Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria, (1928). 'Last Quarter of 8th Century B.C...Mural painting from the palace of Dur-Sharrukin (castle of Sargon), which the Assyrian king Sargon II (722-706 B.C.) built in the neighbourhood of Nineveh, within six years, near the present-day Chorsabad', [Khorsabad, Iraq]. After Victor Place. Plate XV, fig 43, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]