AS3YRIAN SCULPTURES. 
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Bust of Hadrian, clad in the paludamentum. 
No. 20. Bust of Hippocrates, found near Albano, amongst remains 
supposed to be those of a Villa of Marcus Varro. Pt. 2. PI. xx. 
No. 4. Statue of a Canephora. It was one of the Caryatides 
which supported the portico of a small temple dedicated to Bacchus. 
It was found during the pontificate of Sixtus V., among some ancient 
ruins in the Villa Strozzi, situated upon the Appian Road. Pt. 1. 
PL iv. 
Bust of Adonis, wearing the cidaris, or Phrygian cap. From the 
Villa Montalto. 
A colossal head of Hercules, dug up at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, 
where it had been buried by the lava of that volcano. From the collec¬ 
tion of Sir William Hamilton. Pt. 1. PI. xi. 
A colossal head of Hercules, found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton in 1769, 
at the Pantanella in Hadrian’s Villa. 
ASSYRIAN TRANSEPT. 
On the right, or east side of this room, is the Khorsabad compart¬ 
ment, containing monuments from the Palace of Sargon, or Shal¬ 
maneser, the Assyrian king who carried the ten tribes into captivity, 
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 1850 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 male 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 of 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 w 7 ine-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 
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