found,* * * § and mj reason for saying so is that the material is different. Mr. 
Rassam’s gates are of bronze. It may have been that the terms “ copper” 
and “ bronze ” were confused, but still there are two distinct terms used 
for these metals. There were four inscriptions discovered, I believe, at 
Khorsabad, and each of them was written on a different metal. Each of 
these tablets contained the name of the substance of which it was com- 
posed, written in Assyrian, so that the names of these metals are well deter- 
mined. I do not think there can be a doubt that the gates mentioned in the 
inscriptions were of copper and not those found by Mr. Rassam, which are of 
bronze.t Mr. Rassam has not told you everything about these wonderful 
gates, which are even more wonderful than he has given you to understand. 
The number of representations to be found in each band of bronze is about 
half as many as will be found in the whole Nimroud Gallery of the British 
Museum. The height of the gates was at first estimated at about twenty- 
one feet, but I am inclined to think that the height was even more than 
that, namely about twenty-six feet, while the widths of each of the two 
gates was about six feet, making the total width about twelve feet. There 
was an edging containing in duplicate an inscription of Shalmaneser which is 
of very great interest. With regard to the point of which Mr. Rassam spoke 
when he alluded to the antiquities obtained from Tel-loh, I may state that 
they are of very great interest, consisting mostly of cones containing dedi- 
* Mr. Rassam had added, parenthetically, in the course of his lecture, 
that he believed the gates mentioned on the tablets were those he had 
discovered in the mound of Balawat. (T. G. P.) 
f Mr. Pinches suggests “there is yet another, and more conclusive reason 
why these cannot be the gates Mr. Rassam found, and it is this : that 
while the tablets were deposited in the temple of Balawat by Assur-nazir-pal, 
the gates Mr. Rassam found were set up by his son, Shalmaneser II.” 
Mr. Pinches also desires to add the following remarks upon two sections 
of the paper : — 
§ 37. That either Lake Van or Lake Urmiyeh is intended there can be no 
doubt, for the inscription which accompanies the scene tells us that it is “the 
sea of the land of Nairi,” a country which, from its being generally mentioned 
in connection with the land of Urardhu, the Ararat of the Bible, must have 
been north of Assyria. Indeed, Prof. Schrader remarks (Keilinschriften und 
Geschichtsforschuug, p. 180) that Urardhu or Ararat appears to have been 
considered, in the olden times, as a part of the land of Nairi, and he identifies 
“the sea of the land of Nairi” with Lake Urmiyeh, Lake Van being generally 
called, in the inscriptions, “the upper sea of the land of Nairi.” The 
supposed hippopotamus and crocodile in the water are thought to be the 
offsprings of the Assyrian bronze-chaser’s own imagination, due, perhaps, to 
some legend or traveller’s tale. 
§ 49. The clay figure of a man killing a lion undoubtedly represents 
Assurbani-pal or Sardanapalus, and a comparison with the sculptures in the 
Assyrian Basement Room of the British Museum will show that it served, 
most 7 ikely, for the model for the Assyrian sculptor when he carved the slab 
numbered 107a, which shows the very same subject. They are true works of 
art, the clay original being, if anything, the better of the two. 
