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tary lands. The obelisk was found near the centre of the Great 
Mound of Nimroud. 
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 which 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, whose 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 th&. 
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, one of whom appears on the walls, 
begging quarter; 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 some water, 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, with three archers on 
the top, running upon an inclined plane; in the field are several 
warriors fighting, falling from the w 7 alls, or lying wounded: a date palm- 
tree is introduced, torn up by the roots. 
To the left of this bas-relief is another, representing a female leading 
three camels, and carrying a vase, originally belonging to the same 
frieze as the corresponding slab on the other side (with the flock of 
sheep), but separated, as here, by an intervening space. 
Over these is the head of a human-headed and winged buil in bas- 
relief, with double horns, and a richly-decorated tiara. 
Against the Northern Wall of this Room is a colossal lion, standing 
with open jaws, sculptured in front and on one side, and covered 
with cuneiform inscriptions; at the back is also an inscription. This, 
and another similar figure, formed the sides of the principal entrance 
to a second small Temple, erected by Sardauapalus, near that of the 
God of War, already mentioned. 
Against the nearest pilaster, on the East side of this Room, is a 
small statue in hard stone, on its original pedestal; it represents a king 
standing, with his head bare, and a fringed robe wound round his body, 
in his right hand an instrument shaped like a sickle, and in his ieit*a 
mace; on his breast is an inscription, delicately engraved. This, 
which is the only figure sculptured in the round discovered at Nim- 
