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ASSYRIAN GALLERIES. 
ceiving homage from a captive or tributary, who prostrates himself at his 
feet; behind the latter figure are two royal attendants, standing with 
clasped hands; above are representations of the sun and of a ferouhef. 
The side-panels on the same level show the tribute brought to the 
king ; that on the northern face has a horse, with three Assyrian 
figures; the remaining two exhibit foreigners, attired like the two 
large figures on slab No. 19, in the Side-Gallery, and leading camels, 
or bearing miscellaneous offerings on their shoulders. The four panels 
next below these are similar in subject; upon the principal one the 
king is represented standing with a cup in his hand, and attended by 
four eunuchs, one of whom screens him with a parasol, another fans 
him with a fly-flapper; above appear the ferouher, and the sun. On 
the return panels are two royal attendants, followed by tributaries 
bearing wine-skins, vessels, &c. The third row of panels has men in 
Assyrian costume leading or driving animals, two camels, an elephant, 
three monkeys, and tw’o large apes. In the fourth row are two lions 
and a stag, and Assyrians bearing vestures, tusks, &c. In the fifth, 
foreigners and Assyrians intermixed, \rith wine-skins, fruits, vessels, 
&c. The inscription on this monument records the conquests 
of Divanubara, son of Sardanapalus the Great, who is thought 
to have reigned about 902-860 b. c. Amongst those who brought 
him tribute are mentioned Jehu, “ of the house of Omri,” the Israelite 
king, and Hazael, the contemporary king of Syria ; and according to 
Colonel Rawlinson, Misraim, or Egypt, is included in the list of tribu¬ 
tary lands. The obelisk was found near the centre of the Great 
Mound. 
The remainder of the Nimroud collection belongs altogether to the 
period of Ashurakhbal I., or Sardanapalus the Great, the earliest 
Assyrian king whose monuments have been brought to Europe, and 
who is supposed to have reigned about 930 902 B.c. The sculptures 
were found partly in the ruins of an extensive edifice erected under 
this monarch, and termed by Mr. Layard the North-West Palace, and 
partly in two small adjacent temples, of the same date, one of which 
was dedicated to the Assyrian “ God of War.” 
To the West of the door leading from the Kouyunjik Gallery is a 
colossal lion, standing with open jaws, sculptured in front and on one 
side, and, like all the figures found in similar situations, provided wdth 
five legs, so as to appear perfect from both points of view; the whole 
surface is covered with cuneiform inscriptions, and at the back is also 
an inscription. This, with a companion figure, too much injured for 
removal, formed the sides of the principal entrance to one of the small 
temples just mentioned. 
Against the nearest pilaster, on the East side of this room, is a small 
statue in hard stone, on its original pedestal; it represents Ashurakh¬ 
bal I. standing, with his head bare, and a fringed robe wound round 
his body, in his right hand an instrument shaped like a sickle, and in 
his left a mace; on his breast is an inscription, delicately engraved. 
This figure is from an inner chamber of the same small temple as the 
preceding. 
The remaining sculptures in this room were all found in the ruins of 
the North-West Edifice of Nimroud. 
Against the second pilaster of the East side are the head and foot of 
