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ASSYRIAN TRANSEPT. 
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Nos. 83-90. Wars of Ashur-bani-pal ; the attack of an Arab race, 
who, mounted on one-humped camels, take to flight, while their 
tents are surprised and burnt; the siege of two cities and capture of 
one with its ^Ethiopian garrison of negroes, placed there by some 
Egyptian monarch. 
Nos. 91-94. A hostile army flying past an Assyrian city or fortress, 
w 7 ith an inner building with columns resting on the backs of lions and 
winged bulls, and a temple with columns and pilasters resembling 
those of the Ionic order ; in front is a tablet with figure of the king 
and altar like that in the Assyrian transept, and a bridge or viaduct 
with openings like Gothic arches. 
No. 95. Execution of the king of Susiana. 
No. 96. Koyal attendants bringing offerings. 
Nos. 97-1 02 a. Pavement slabs with representations of carpets. 
Nos. 104-1] 9. A series of slabs divided horizontally into two or 
three tiers of small figures, remarkable for the delicacy of their execu- 
tion. They represent hunting scenes, the pursuit of deer, goats, wild 
asses, and the different modes of killing the lion described in the 
accompanying inscriptions. 
No. 120. Capture and burning of a city; guarding of captives, who 
are at meals. 
No. 121. Fine slab representing Ashur-bani-pal and his queen 
banqueting under a bower of vines. The king reposes on a couch, at 
the foot of which the queen is seated on a chair. A musician and 
attendants with viands and fans wait on the royal pair. Birds and 
grasshoppers are singing in the adjacent trees, to one of which is sus- 
pended the head of an enemy. 
Nos. 122-124. Lion-hunting and other scenes. 
In the centre of the room are three Table Cases containing several 
miscellaneous small articles. 
Returning up the staircase, and passing again through the 
Nimroud Gallery, the visitor reaches the 
ASSYRIAN TRANSEPT. 
The first or Western Compartment, contains the remainder 
of the monuments of Sardanapalus the Great, of which the 
principal part has been described in the Nimroud Gallery. 
In the middle is a high arched slab, having in front a bas-relief of 
the king, with various sacred symbols, and on the sides and back 
an invocation to the Assyrian gods, and a chronicle of the king's con- 
quests. Before it stands a triangular altar, which originally was so 
placed, at the entrance to the temple of the " God of War." 
At the sides stand a pair of colossal human-headed lions, winged, 
and triple-horned, which originally flanked a doorway in the North-west 
edifice. With these terminates the series from Nimroud. 
