166 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.S., ON 
directed the followers of the god Enlil, in which last we may, 
perhaps, understand the Babylonians as being meant. None of 
these kings, however, had beautified the city as he had done. 
For the work which he had in view, therefore, he brought the 
people of Chaldea, the Arameans, the Mannites or Armenians, 
Que and Hilakku (both mentioned as countries, though in the 
historical part the latter appears as a city), the land of Pilisti 
or Philistia, and the land of Tyre. These nationalities, which 
had not submitted to his yoke, he placed in servitude, and they 
made bricks for the extension and decoration of the city. 
The work which first appealed to him was the building of a 
palace for himself, and to this end he pulled down the former 
palace, the terrace and foundation of which had been destroyed 
by the Tebiltu, a violent stream, which since remote days had 
souzht to reach the structure. In order to safeguard it in 
future, he turned aside the course of the river, and reclaimed, 
from another stream, the Khosr, a piece of land 540 cubits in 
length by 298 in breadth. The palace itself was enlarged, when 
rebuilt, to a length of 700 great suklwm and a width of 440, and 
he caused palaces (that is, separate sections or divisions of the 
whole structure) to be built, and adorned with gold, silver, and all 
kinds of valuable woods. To this palace he added a gateway made 
after the likeness of that of a Hittite palace, and from the excava- 
tions which have been made on Hittite sites, it seems probable 
that this was a special arrangement of winged lions and bulls, 
such as the Assyrians had themselves been accustomed to employ 
for decorative purposes. I quote here Sennacherib’s words :— 
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a house of double doors (7.e., porch) 
in the likeness of a palace of Hattu, 
I caused to be made opposite its gates.” 
It therefore seems clear that it is the arrangement which is 
referred to, and not the ornamentation. The lines which follow 
are characteristic of the East, the land of sweet odours and 
precious wood :— 
“Beams of cedar and cypress, 
whose scent is sweet, the products of Amanus 
and Sirara, the sacred* mountains, 
I caused to be set up over them.” 
In the shrines within the royal chambers Sennacherib opened 
dpti birri, which are regarded as meaning “ light-holes,” or 
windows, and in their gates (the gates of the shrines apparently) 
* Or “the snow-capped.” 
