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he Babylonish carpets had representations of human figures and composite animals, such as winged bulls with human heads, griffins and dragons. These were numbered among the luxuries of Heliogabalus. On the tomb of Cyrus was spread a purple Babylonian carpet, and another covered the bed whereon his body was placed. These carpets were exported in considerable quantities to Greece and Rome. Researches in Pompeii show that they were used in that city in the time of Imperial Rome. Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson gives an account of one carpet rug of Egyptian manufacture. It is made like many cloths of the present day, with woolen threads, on linen strings. In the center is the figure of a boy in white, with a goose above, the hieroglyphic of a child, upon a green ground, around which is a border composed of red and blue lines. He also mentions some fine specimens of worked worsted upon linen, now in the Turin Museum, in which the linen threads of the weft have been picked out and colored