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a winged and human-headed bull, wearing a horned cap; the neck 
and shoulders are restored. 
Against the southern wail of the room, on either side of the door, 
are two colossal figures of a lion and a bull, not originally forming a 
pair, but each united with a figure similar to itself, at two of the 
entrances of chambers in the North-West Edifice. They are sculptured 
in mezzo-rilievo in front and on the side, and have each human heads 
with triple-horned caps, wings, and cuneiform inscriptions covering 
the unsculptured surfaces of the slabs. 
Adjoining these, on either side, are two pairs of small human 
figures in bas-relief, each of which has wings and double-horned caps, 
and holds, in a sacrificial attitude, a fir-cone and basket, or a branch 
of pomegranate. They have all cuneiform inscriptions. 
The South door leads into the 
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This room contains a continuation of the same series with the monu¬ 
ments last described. 
The bas-reliefs on the West side w^ere all found in a chamber of the 
North-West Edifice marked B in Mr. Layard’s ground plan of this 
ruin, and formed part of the frieze. Those on the opposite side are 
partly from other chambers of the same edifice, partly from the small 
adjacent Temple of the God of War. 
The slabs with large figures bear inscriptions running horizontally 
across the middle; those wdth small figures have had inscriptions 
generally on the border above and below. 
The following are the slabs from Cliamber B, commencing from the 
West, or right-hand side of the South door: — 
1. A human figure with four wings, and triple-horned cap, sumptu¬ 
ously attired in embroidered and fringed robes; his right hand is raised 
in the attitude of worship, and in his left is a mace. 
2. Large bas-relief, sunk within a border or framework, representing 
two kings in richly-ornamented attire, apparently engaged in sacrifice, 
and each followed by a winged triple-horned figure holding in one 
hand the fir-cone, in the other the basket, employed in religious rites : 
between the kings is a mystic tree, and above this, a ferouher, or 
Divine image in a winged circle. In front of this bas-relief, in its 
original site, was a large slab, serving as a throne or altar. 
The four next slabs, both in the upper and lower tier, formed origin¬ 
ally, as here, a continuous series. 
S a. Bull-hunt. The king, from his chariot, thrusts a dagger into 
the neck of a bull which had apparently pursued him, and which, like 
all those here represented, shows only one horn, rising from the middle 
of his forehead; another bull lies transfixed with arrows; behind 
follows a horseman, leading a second horse by his side. 
3 b. Return from the bull-hunt The king stands over a prostrate 
bull, with a cup in his hand; one of his attendants fans him with a fly- 
flapper ; another shades him with a parasol; a third figure approaches 
with his hands clasped, in the Oriental attitude of respect; two others 
play, with plectra^ upon stringed musical instruments. 
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