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with an irfner 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. Royal attendants bringing offerings. 
Nos. 97-1 02 a. Pavement slabs with representations of carpets. 
Nos. ] 04-1 19. 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, thejmrsuit 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 Assur-bani-abla 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 Te-umman, king of Elam. 
Nos. 122-124. Lion-hunting and other scenes. 
In the centre of the room are three Table Cases containing several 
miscellaneous small articles of bronze, iron, and terracotta. 
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 Assur-nazir-pal, or Assur-natsir-abla, 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 an 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. 
Behind these are two torsos with inscriptions, one of black stone, 
bearing the name of an ancient Chaldean king; the other of a goddess, 
found at Kouyunjik, with the name of Assur-bel-kala, an Assyrian 
monarch, who reigned about 1100 B.C. 
On the West wall are casts and sculptures in relief and inscriptions 
from the palace of the Persian monarchs, about 500 b.c at Persepolis ; 
