BABYLON AND PERSIA

THE LATE DISCOVERIES AT SUSA. 337uniforms were covered with scutcheon badges, wovenor embroidered in the stuff, very much like thoseworn by the retainers of noble and royal houses inthe Middle Ages.Let us hear Mr. Dieulafoy 's de¬scription :45. ENLARGED 1)K-1-AII, OF THE DESIGN WOVEN INTO TIIERIGHT HAND ARCHER's ROBES.(SecFrontispiece.)". . . On a while ground are regularly scattered black lozengesbordered with yellow. In the middle of each lozenge is painted a whiteknoll bearing three towers one yellow and two white. The designis framed by a yellow line in relief.This ornament represents, in theclearest possible manner, the citadel of Susa ;this, at least, is theconventional representation of it on the Assyrian sculptures thatrefer to the capture of Susa by Asshurbanipal.When the great lordsof the Middle Ages had their arms embroidered or woven into thegarments of their retainers, they little dreamed that they had beenanticipated by the Persian monarchs ! "The " Lion-frieze " and the " Archer-frieze " arenot the only specimens of Persian enamelled brick