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ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
[GROUND 
Towards the South end, a circular bowl in limestone, procured by 
Mr. Layard, and sculptured with bas-reliefs of men and lions. 
Four Table Cases in the middle of the room contain small 
objects discovered in various excavations. 
In No. 61 are seals, engraved stones, and cylinders of hard stone 
of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian workmanship ; amongst them a 
cylinder supposed to have been used by Sennacherib ; and another with 
the name of Darius I. 
No. 62. Objects chiefly from Chaldsea ; a stone inscribed with the 
name of Merodach-Baladan ; fragments of a clay cylinder with inscrip- 
tion relating to Nebuchadnezzar. 
No. 63. Terracotta tablets with cuneiform inscriptions : clay seals, 
two with the name of the -^Ethiopian king, Sabaco. 
No. 64. Objects in iron and bronze — bracelets, fetters, and swords. 
NIMROUD CENTRAL SALOON. 
With this room commences the series of sculptures exca- 
vated by Mr. Layard in 1847 and 1850, in different parts ot 
the great mound at Nimroud ; -with which have been placed 
one or two sculptures since obtained by Mr. Rassam from 
the same locality. 
To the left of the door, on entering from the Kouyunjik 
Gallery, is a small group of slabs in relief, consisting of sculp- 
tures discovered in the South-western edifice of the great 
mound, which is believed to have been constructed by Essar- 
haddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib, towards the 
beginning of the seventh century B.C., with materials obtained, 
in a great measure, from the spoliation of the palaces erected 
in other parts of Nimroud by the earlier Assyrian dynasty. 
The most important object in this group is a large bas-relief, divided 
horizontally into two tiers, the upper representing the evacuation of a 
city, and the lower an Assyrian monarch in his chariot. The inscrip- 
tion, of which a part exists on this slab, and the remainder was upon 
others adjoining it, records the receipt of tribute from Menahem. King 
of Israel, and thus indicates that this sculpture was executed either for 
Pul or Tiglath-Pileser II., though subsequently transferred by Essar- 
haddon to his own palace. 
Adjoining this is a colossal head of a human-headed bull, on a larger 
scale than any yet brought to Europe, and supposed to be of the time 
of Es.sar-haddon himself. 
Against the two central pilasters stand two statues excavated by 
Mr. Kassam in the South-eastern edifice of Nimroud, each representing 
