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was represented on the slab originally adjoining this on the left side, 
the two figures standing back to back ; and a portion of the wing of 
the companion figure appears on this slab. 
Immediately on the other side of the North door are bas-reliefs from 
other ch^-mbers of the North-West Edifice. 
18. Winged male figure, in fringed and embroidered robes, with 
an ibex on his left arm, and in his right hand an ear of wheat. 
19. Two foreigners, paying tribute to some personage represented 
on a lost slab. Both these figures have shoes with high pointed toes, 
and one wears a cap not very unlike the Phrygian. The foremost is 
raising his two hands in an attitude symbolical of deference or pacifi¬ 
cation ; the other has on his head and shoulders a monkey, retained 
by a noose, and is leading another monkey, similarly secured. Re¬ 
mains of black and white paint may be observed in their eyes. 
20. A king standing with a staff or sceptre in his right hand, and 
his left resting on his sword; his robes are richly fringed, and their em¬ 
broidery is represented by very delicate incised lines ; on his eyes and 
his sandals are remains of colour. 
Next follow six slabs from a chamber marked G in Mr. Layard’s 
Plan of the North-West Palace, which, from their superior dimensions, 
elaborate execution, and almost perfect preservation, may be reckoned 
among the finest examples of Assyrian bas-relief. They represent the 
King amongst his attendants, supernatural and human, apparently re¬ 
turned from battle, or the chace. All the figures are sumptuously 
attired, their robes fringed, and embroidered with sacred or mystical 
ornaments; their sandals are painted in black and red, and remains of 
colour are discernible in the eyes. 
21. 22, 23. Three slabs, forming one subject, and originally occu¬ 
pying the North End of the Chamber. In the middle is the king, 
seated on a throne, with his feet on a footstool, and in his right hand a 
shallow cup. Before him is an eunuch, holding out di patera^or vessel 
with a curved handle, and fanning the king with a fly-flapper; he is 
followed by a winged and double-horned figure, with the sacrificial 
fir-cone and basket. Behind the king are tw’o eunuchs bearing his 
arms, and the foremost fanning him with the fly-flapper; after them 
follows another winged personage, similar to that on the other 
side. 
24, 25,’ 26, are all from the East Side of Chamber G. The entire 
wall was covered with repetitions of the same two groups of figures, 
each repetition occupying in the whole three slabs. The specimens 
selected by Mr. Layard present portions of different groups, which are 
here arranged in correspondence, though not in actual juxtaposition, 
with each other. They are as follows: 
24. Winged, double horned figure, with fir-cone and basket, and 
king with his bow, and two arrows held up a symbolical position. 
25. Winged, double-horned figure, with fir-cone and basket, com¬ 
pleting a group with another slab similar to the preceding. Eunuch 
bearing the king’s arms, belonging to a slab similar to the following, 
26. King with a cup and bow, an eunuch fanning him with a fly- 
flapper. The bows on this slab and No. 24 have each been painted 
red. 
The slabs next succeeding are from the small Temple at the North- 
