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the collection of the heads is again represented, before two scribes 
with writing materials, who register the number brought in. 
30. Fragment from the siege of a city. A bowman, shooting from 
behind a screen held by an attendant soldier ; behind them, two sting¬ 
ers discharging stones. Underneath are the legs and feet of five 
combatants, the remains of a bas-relief, of which the upper portion has 
been removed to make room for the present sculpture, thus forming a 
species of palimpsest. 
31. Plaster cast of a horseman, unarmed, in full flight. 
32. Cast of an Assyrian horseman, pursuing, and discharging an 
arrow. The sculptures from which these two casts were taken were 
not brought home for the Museum. 
33. A slab from Chamber vi. in Mr. Layard’s plan; it represents 
a male figure, with hair falling over his shoulders in large flowing 
curls, and armed only with a dagger in his belt; his left hand'is raised; 
his right, which is destroyed, appears to have grasped an object of un¬ 
certain character, planted upon the earth before him, apparently astatf 
surmounted by a fir-cone, or spear-head. 
34—43. Part of a series of sculptures which originally lined the two 
walls of a long narrow gallery leading, by an inclined plane, from Kou- 
yunjik towards the Tigris. On the one side, descending the slope, were 
fourteen horses, led by grooms; on the other, ascending into the palace, 
were servitors bearing food for a banquet. The figures are somewhat 
smaller than life, designed with much freedom and truth; and by com¬ 
parison with the Panathenaic frieze in the Elgin Saloon, they may 
furnish a good point of view for estimating the capabilities and defects 
of Assyrian art. 
The first two groups of consecutive slabs (34, 35) and (36, 37, 
38) present grooms, wearing short tunics fringed with fur, and em¬ 
broidered belts, leading each a horse by a halter twisted round his 
lower jaw. 
39. Slab returned at a projection in the wall, and bearing on it a 
figure similarly attired to the grooms, but with a small staff in his 
hand,—perhaps a marshal or chamberlain. 
39*. Cast of an inscription at the back of No. 39. 
40. Slab which originally, as here, adjoined No. 39, presenting 
another horse and groom. 
41. Slab from the opposite side of the gallery to the preceding, re¬ 
presenting three attendants or servitors; the first (to the left) bearing in 
each hand a rod fringed with two rows of dried locusts, which are even 
yet consumed as food by the Arabs; the next, carrying two birds; and 
the foremost, two wineskins. 
42. 43. Two consecutive slabs, with five similar figures, forming two 
couples, and half of a third; each couple bearing between them, on 
their shoulders, trays laden with pomegranates, grapes, apples, and 
other articles of food. 
44. A semicircular-headed slab, with a small mutilated figure stand¬ 
ing, apparently in adoration, before a table of offerings, near which are 
various astrological symbols. Beside, and beneath him, is a long in¬ 
scription, divided in the middle by a broad band. 
On the other side of the door is a highly-interesting series of sculp¬ 
tures on six consecutive slabs, which formed the only remaining deco- 
