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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, y<'ho 
are at meals. 
No. 121. Fine slab representing Assur-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 Teumman, 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 GaUery, the visitor reaches the 
ASSYRIAN TRANSEPT. 
The first or Western Compartment, contains the remainder 
of the monuments of Assur-nazir-pal, 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. 
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 ; 
and on the South wall casts of Pehlevi inscriptions at Hadji Abad 
in its vicinity. 
Near there are cases containing antiquities excavated at Dali or 
Idalium, in Cyprus, by Mr. R. H. Lang, in 1870. Amongst them is 
an inscription in the Phoenician and Cyprian languages, dated in the 
reign of Melekiatun, about b.c. 370 ; and against the columns on the 
North side the upper half of the statue of a deity or monarch, and 
another statue from the same place. 
On the East side of this Transept, is the Khorsabad Com- 
partment, containing monuments from the palace of Sargina, 
the founder of the later Assyrian dynasty, about B.C. 721. 
