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NIMROUD CENTRAL SALOON. 
North-West, edifice of Nimroud. The greater part of these sculptures 
have been hitherto exhibited in the basement under the Lycian Room. 
Being now in process of arrangement, they cannot be individually de¬ 
scribed. 
NIMROUD CENTRAL SALOON. 
This Room contains the rest of the Nimroud collection. 
Against the Southern Wall, on either side of the door of the Side- 
Gallery, are two colossal figures of a bull and a lion, not originally 
forming a pair, but each united with a similar figure, at two of the en¬ 
trances of chambers in the North-West Edifice of the Great Mound. 
They are sculptured in mezzo-rilievo in front and on the side, and 
have each human heads with triple horns, wings, and cuneiform inscrip¬ 
tions covering the unsculptured surfaces of the slabs. 
Adjoining these, on either side, are two pairs of small human figures 
in bas-relief, each of w T hich has wings and double horns, and holds, in a 
sacrificial attitude, a fir-cone and basket, or a branch of pomegranate. 
They have all cuneiform inscriptions. These figures conclude the 
series from the North-West Edifice. 
On the Western Wall of this Room are the remains from the Cen¬ 
tral Ruin of the Great Mound at Nimroud. 
Commencing from the left, the lowest bas-relief represents the eva¬ 
cuation of a captured city. Beneath the walls stand two battering en¬ 
gines, unemployed. Two carts, each containing two females and a 
child, and drawn by a pair of bullocks, are leaving the city. In the 
distance are eunuchs driving away the captured cattle, and scribes 
making an inventory of the spoil. 
Above, to the left, is a slab, on w 7 hich is represented an eunuch 
followed by two pairs of prisoners, with their hands bound behind them. 
To the right of this is a slab, having sculptured upon it a flock of 
sheep and goats, and a driver, vrhose figure is nearly effaced. 
Over these is a slab, having on it two horsemen with spears pursuing 
a flying figure on a camel. Beneath their feet are three dead men. 
Continuing along the Western Wall, on the other side of the 
entrance to the Phigaleian Saloon, the lowest slabs bear representa¬ 
tions of two sieges. 
That to the left, which has an inscription underneath, has pourtrayed 
upon it the walls of a city, against which a battering engine is brought 
to work upon an artificial mound. Two archers behind screens are 
discharging arrows at the besieged ; in the distance are three impaled 
persons, and at the foot of the mound lie two of the slain. 
The right-hand slab represents a similar attack of a city on the banks 
of a lake, beside which are trees 
Above this bas-relief is a third siege. The city is defended by a 
triple tier of walls, with battlements, from which archers are shooting; 
the besiegers are working a battering engine upon an inclined plane; 
in the field are several warriors fighting, falling from the walls, or lying 
wounded : two date-palm trees are introduced. 
To the left of this bas-relief is another, representing a female leading 
three camels, originally belonging to the same frieze with the cor¬ 
responding slab of the flock of sheep on the other side, but separated 
as here, by an intervening space. 
