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ASSYRIAN TRANS 
grounds of the slabs are covered with cuneiform inscriptions. This 
concludes the series from Nimroud. 
On the opposite, or East side of this room, is the Khorsabad com¬ 
partment, containing monuments from the Palace of Sargina, the 
founder of the later Assyrian dynasty, and also (it is believed) the 
same person as Shalmenaser, who carried the ten tribes into captivity 
in the reign of Hoshea, b.c. 721. 
Two colossal human-headed and winged bulls, each sculptured in 
mezzo-rilievo both in front and on one side, are placed, agreeably to 
their original arrangement, as on the two sides of the entrance of an 
inner chamber. Under the body of each bull is an Assyrian inscrip¬ 
tion, but that on the left-hand figure has been purposely effaced in 
ancient times. 
Beside each bull is a colossal human figure, in mezzo-rilievo, 
winged, and double-horned, having in one hand the fir-cone, and in the 
other the basket, employed in sacrificial rites. These, with the two 
bulls, were obtained from Khorsabad in 1849 by Lieutenant-Colonel 
H. C. Rawlinson, C.B., H.M. Consul-General at Baghdad. 
Within the chamber thus formed is the collection of bas-reliefs 
procured from Khorsabad in 1847 by Mr. Hector, a merchant at Mosul. 
On the East Wall, facing the entrance, are two colossal figures, of a 
king, and a chief, in conference; behind the latter, an eunuch with his 
hands clasped; and on either side, several other heads, originally be¬ 
longing to similar figures. 
At the back of the bull, near the window, are two smaller figures, 
in a sacrificial attitude, with the right hand raised, and in the left, a 
pomegranate branch; two colossal heads qf eunuchs; and a small 
bearded human head. 
At the back of the other bull are two figures, of an archer, and a 
tributary bearing a wine-skin, three small fragments with horses’ heads 
richly accoutred, and a third fragment, inscribed, and having on it the 
feet of two men and a horse. 
On the Wall facing the window is a slab with two horses’ heads, richly 
caparisoned, and the upper part of the figure of a foreign tributary, the 
size of life. 
Beneath this is the only slab obtained by Mr. Layard from Khorsa¬ 
bad, in black stone, and representing, in bas-relief, three Assyrian sports¬ 
men in a wood, with bows and arrow's, killing deer, hares, and birds. 
In a detached position, in the middle, is a mutilated statue, in 
basalt, of a male figure of the size of life, seated on a square throne; 
it is covered w’ith inscriptions, which prove it to be of the time of 
Divanubara. Found by Mr. Layard, at Kalah Sherghat, on the Tigris, 
below Nimroud, in 1847. 
The North side of the Assyrian Transept opens into the 
EGYPTIAN GALLERIES. 
The monuments in this collection, the last to be seen on the Ground 
Floor of the Museum, may be regarded on the whole as the earliest 
within the range of antiquity : for though, on the one hand, they 
descend to the times of the Roman Empire, they ascend, on the 
