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followed by a winged and double-horned figure, with the sacrificial 
fir-cone and basket. Behind the king are two eunuchs bearing his 
arras, 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- 
West extremity of the Great Mound dedicated to the God of War. 
Nos. 27-29 stood originally, as here, at right angles to each other. 
No. 27 being on the external wall of the building, and Nos. 28 and 29 
on the side of a doorway leading to one of the chambers. On the 
opposite side was a similar group, of which the return slab on the 
external wall (No. 32) was alone removed by Mr. Layard. 
27. Figure, apparently of a priest, richly attired, with flowers on 
his head, and in his right hand a branch with three blossoms. 
28. 29. A four-winged male figure, wearing the triple-horned cap, 
and brandishing thunderbolts, pursues at full speed a monster with the 
head and body of a lion, but with horns, wings, and the feet and tail 
of an eagle, who is represented with remarkable spirit, ramping, and 
angrily snarling. In the original position of this bas-relief, at the en¬ 
trance of the temple, it would obviously typify the extrusion of the 
Evil Spirit. On the edge of the inner slab are part of a fir-cone, and 
of a human foot, belonging to a figure similar to the next (No. 32), 
but turned in the opposite direction. At the back of the two slabs is 
the standard inscription of the monuments of Sardanapalus, which 
was hidden, anciently, against the wall. Both slabs were found shat¬ 
tered into fragments, and their surface dilapidated by the action of the 
fire, in which the building perished. 
30. Slab found immediately adjoining the Good and Evil Spirit 
on the opposite side of the same doorway, and within the chamber. It 
represents a Fish-God, perhaps a form of Dagon ; his cap is shaped 
behind into the head of a fish, whose body descends to his waist; in 
his left hand is the mystic basket, and his right held the fir-cone, 
sculptured on the return of the slab flanking the doorway. The back 
of this bas-relief has also an inscription, running across the middle ; a 
cast of it (30*) is placed at the side. The slab itself has suffered like 
the two preceding. 
31. Winged male figure, with a garland on his head, and in his 
left hand a branch with blossoms, as if for sacrifice. From the North- 
West Edifice. 
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