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him tribute are mentioned Jehu, u of the house of OmriY’the Israelite 
king, and Hazael, the contemporary king of Syria; and according to 
Sir Henry Rawiinson, Misraim, or Egypt, is included in the list of 
tributary lands. The obelisk was found near the centre of the Great 
Mound. 
The remainder of the Nimroud collection belongs altogether to the 
period of Ashurakhbal, otherwise read Ashuradanbal, or Sardanapalus 
the Great, the earliest Assyrian king whose monuments have been 
brought to Europe, and who is supposed to have reigned about 
930-902 B.c. The sculptures w r ere found partly in the ruins of an 
extensive edifice erected under this monarch, and termed by Mr. 
Layard the North-West Palace, and partly in two small adjacent 
temples, of the same date ,cme of which was dedicated to the Assyrian 
“ God of War.” 
To the West of tnc aoor leading from the Kouvunjik Gallery is a 
colossal lion, standing with open jaws* sculptured in front and on one 
side, and, like ail the figures found in similar situations, provided with 
five legs, so as to appear perfect from both points of view; the whole 
surface is covered with cuneiform inscriptions, and at the back is also 
an inscription. This, with a companion figure, too much injured for 
removal, formed the sides of the principal entrance to one of the small 
temples just 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 Sardana¬ 
palus the Great 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 left a mace; on his breast is an inscription, delicately 
engraved. This figure is from an inner chamber of the same small 
temple as the preceding. 
The remaining sculptures in this room were all found in the ruins of 
the North-West Edifice of Nimroud. 
Against the second pilaster of the East side are the head and foot of 
a winged and human-headed bull, wearing a horned cap; the neck 
and shoulders are restored. 
Against the southern wall of the room, on either side of the door, 
are two colossal figures of a lion and a bull, not originally forming a 
pair, but each united with a figure similar to itself, at tw'o of the 
entrances of chambers in the North-West Edifice. They are sculptured 
in mezzo-rilievo in front and on the side, and have each human heads 
with triple-horned caps, wings, and cuneiform inscriptions covering 
the unsculptured surfaces of the slabs. 
Adjoining these, on either side, are twD pairs of small human 
figures in bas-relief, each of which has wings and double-horned caps, 
and holds, in a sacrificial attitude, a fir-cone and basket, or a branch 
of pomegranate. They have all cuneiform inscriptions. 
The South door leads into the 
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This room contains a continuation of the same series w ith the monu¬ 
ments last described. 
The bas-reliefs on the West side were all found in a chamber of the 
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