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feet. The narrow slabs were arranged in three horizontal rows, viz. 
an upper line of bas-reliefs, below which was a continuous series of 
slabs with cuneiform inscriptions, below which was another series of 
sculptured slabs. Each slab was attached to that above and below, 
by three pins, and to its companion at the side, by three cramps. 
The remainder of the building was composed of crude bricks, in which 
the slabs were encased, and the top of the chamber seems to have 
been formed of a cornice of glazed bricks, the whole surmounted by 
a roof with wooden rafters, which had fallen in. The pavement was 
inlaid with a cuneiform inscription in bronze. Little progress has yet 
been made in the decypherment of the inscriptions, but they have 
been supposed to record the name of Ninus. They consist of—1. 
Head and foot of a colossal human-headed bull; 2. Winged Assyrian 
deified personage holding a basket and pine cone, inscribed with lines 
of Ninevite cuneiform ; 3. Winged vulture or eagle-headed deity, 
with basket, pine cone, and twenty lines of Assyrian cuneiform cha¬ 
racter ; 4. Upper part of a slab ; an Assyrian monarch drinking, 
accompanied by an eunuch ; 5. An Assyrian monarch attacking a 
city, the wall of w T hich is breached by a battering ram ; 6. An As¬ 
syrian monarch, and his troops pursuing the enemy, who take refuge 
in a w 7 ood at the foot of a city ; 7. The Assyrian troops who follow 
after the king in this scene, in chariots, pursuing the enemy through 
a wood; three decapitated corpses lie above, and an eagle hovers over 
them ; 8. The Assyrian monarch, attended by his eunuchs and body 
guard, receiving the submission of the chief or monarch of the enemy ; 
9. An Assyrian monarch hunting lions in his chariot: one lies dead 
under the chariot, he is transfixing the other with his arrows ; 10. An 
Assyrian monarch hunting bulls in his chariot, transfixing one wuth a 
short dagger; 11. An Assyrian monarch at an entertainment with 
tw 7 o bands, accompanied by his court. 
Several heads of eunuchs and prisoners; horses’ heads from a chariot; 
and full length figures of a monarch, eunuch, and enemy: from an ex¬ 
cavation made by Mr. Hector at Nineveh. These are of a different 
period, and supposed to be about the age of Sargon or Esarhaddon, 
e.c. 620. 
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Small Roman altar; in front Ceres holding a cornucopiae, and 
pouring incense from a patera, on an altar. Found at King Stanley, 
in Gloucestershire. Presented by the Rev . P. Hawker. 
Small Roman altar; in front a figure holding a spear and -shield. 
Found at King Stanley, Gloucestershire. Presented by the Rev. P. 
Hawker. 
Altar similar to the preceding. Found at King Stanley, Glouces¬ 
tershire. Presented by the Rev. P. Hawker. 
A Roman altar to iEsculapius and Fortuna Redux, erected by some 
freedmen and slaves on the restoration of their master to health. 
On one side are the rod and snake of iEsculapius and sacrificial in¬ 
struments. On the other are the cornucopiae and rudder of Fortune, 
and patera and jug. Found near the Watergate, Chester, in 1779. 
Presented by Sir Ph. de Malpas Grey Egerton , Bart. 
