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ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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before Sennacherib, and whose principal monuments are to be seen 
in the Nimroud collection. It is covered with small bas-reliefs, 
representing the various exploits of the monarch. 
Towards the North end of the room is the upper part of another 
obelisk of the same king, also discovered by Mr. Rassam. 
Towards the South end, a circular bowl in limestone, procured by 
Mr. Layard, and sculptured with bas-reliefs of men and lions. 
Five 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: 
amongst them are a cylinder of Dungi, King of Babylonia, about 
B.C. '2000; a fragment, witVi the name of Durigalzu, a king of Baby- 
lon, about B.C. 1400 ; and a stone, with the name of Nebuchadnezzar, 
B.C. 600 ; cylinders of Sennacherib, about B.C. 700 ; and one of 
Darius I., b.c. 520 ; an oval gem, with Vararanes IV. trampling on a 
prostrate Roman, a.d. 389 ; an oval gem, with the busts of a Sassanian 
monarch and queen, about the 6th century, a.d. 
No. 62. Terracotta figures of a king, the god Dagon, and the 
hunting dogs found behind the bas-reliefs at Kouyunjik, Assyrian 
weights in form of ducks, necklaces, gold earring with pearls, &c. 
Several cylinders and gems with Phoenician, Pehlevi, Sassanian, and 
Himyaritic inscriptions. 
No. 63. Terracotta tablets with cuneiform inscriptions : amongst 
them are the Assyrian canon of names of Eponymous officers, from 
B.C. 911 to B.C. 660 ; the record of the Egyptian campaigns of Assur- 
bani-pal, B.C. 668, in which are mentioned Gyges, Necho, and Tirhaka; 
sale tablets with Phoenician inscriptions, and others dated from Nabo- 
nidus, B.C. 555, to the Seleucidse, b.c. 164; a series of seals, two with 
the name of the Egyptian monarch Sabaco. 
No. 64. Objects in iron and bronze — bracelets, fetters, and swords. 
No. 65. Terracotta tablets with cuneiform inscriptions: amongst 
them, an Assyrian planisphere ; the phonetic names of the months ; 
a cuneiform syllabary ; tablet of Assyrian laws ; hieroglyphic forms of 
cuneiform characters; a list of square roots; a tablet, giving an 
account of the descent of Ishtar, the Assyrian Venus to Hades, and 
the principal fragments of the three tablets giving the Chaldean 
account of the Deluge. 
NIMBOUD CENTRAL SALOON. 
With this room commences the series of sculptures exca- 
vated by Mr. Layard in 184)7 and 1850, in diflferent parts of 
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 
