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ASSYRIAN SALOON. 
On the right, or east side of this Saloon, is the Khorsabad compart¬ 
ment. 
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 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 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 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 
Khorsabad, in black stone, and representing, in bas-relief, three Assyrian 
sportsmen in a wood, with bows and arrows, killing deer, hares, and birds. 
On the opposite, or West side of this Saloon, commences the col¬ 
lection of sculptures excavated by Mr. Layard in different parts of the 
great mound at Nimroud, a few miles below Mosul, on the Tigris. 
The first portion of this collection consists of the remains brought 
from the North-Western, or most ancient edifice there discovered. 
The two colossal human-headed, winged, and triple-horned lions, 
which form an entrance to the whole, were originally on either side of 
the portal of a chamber. They are sculptured in mezzo-rilievo in 
front and on one side, and the backgrounds of the slabs are covered 
with cuneiform inscriptions. 
Against the West Wall of this Saloon, on either side of the door of 
the Lycian Room, it is intended to place the Persepolitan bas-reliefs, at 
present standing under the windows of the Central Saloon, so that the 
Persian antiquities will form a connecting link between those of Assyria 
and those of Asia Minor. 
NIMROUD SIDE-GALLERY. 
To the spectator’s right, after passing the colossal lions, is the entrance 
to the Southern Side-Gallerv, appropriated to the remains of the 
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