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dealing with them are published, ike that of Andrae upon the 
Temple of Anu and Adad, which has furnished material for 
this portion of the present paper. 
Though the objects of art do not by any means equal in 
number to those from Nineveh, Calah and Khorsabad, there are 
still a few which are worthy of notice. One is a sixteen-sided 
column of basalt with a strange-looking capital, supposed to be 
of the time of Tiglath- -pileser I. Another good specimen of 
Assyrian art consists of fragments of bronze on which chased 
figures in relief may be seen, reminding one of those magnificent 
brazen gates which Mr. Rassam was so fortunate as to discover 
at Balawat. This shows figures in procession, seemingly going 
to meet the Assyrian king, and introducing a smaller figure, 
apparently a child. There are several scenes on the Balawat 
gates which can be compared with this, and in the light of 
Shalmaneser’s historical inscriptions, it is seen that the little 
personage is a princess who is represented, and that she is being 
surrendered by a conquered prince or chief to the Assyrian king 
to become one of his wives. The proportions seem not to be so 
well kept as in the case of the Balawat Gates, but the work in 
general is good. 
Nineveh. 
Assur is regarded as having been the first capital of Assyria, 
and Nineveh the second; but Dr. Rogers lays claim to the 
honour of chief city of the kingdom for two others in addition— 
Calah and Khorsabad, the order being AS8ur, Calah, Nineveh, 
Khorsabad (built by Sargon on the site of Maganubba), and 
then Nineveh again. If so, this is a case of kings proposing 
and God disposing, for notwithstanding all that Sargon did for 
Dir-Sarru-ukin, now Khorsabad, its importance declined after 
his death, and Sennacherib, his son, showered his favours on 
Nineveh, which remained the capital of the land until the 
downfall of the Assyrian monarchy in 606 B.c. 
And it is apparently in consequence of what Sennacherib did 
for the city that its glory revived. Two German scholars, 
Messrs. Meissner and Rost, have edited and translated very 
successfully the inscriptions in which that king records his work 
there, so that we have had for a considerable time rather full 
details of his architectural, horticultural, and defensive 
achievements. 
Lately, however, fresh attention has been attracted to them, 
for the British Museum has been fortunate enough to acquire 
another text—a prism similar to the monument known as the 
