[235] Taylor, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 409.
[236] Layard, Discoveries, p. 260.
[237] Layard, Discoveries, pp. 645-6.
[238] Layard, Monuments, &c., first series, plate 19. This relief is reproduced in Place, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 40, fig. 6.
[239] British Museum; Kouyundjik Gallery, Nos. 34-43. See also Layard's Monuments, plates 8 and 9.—Ed.
[240] A second inclined gallery of the same kind was found by Layard in another of the Kouyundjik palaces (Discoveries, p. 650).
[241] Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 306, 307.
[242] Place, Ninive, vol. i. p. 140.
[243] As to the great size sometimes reached by the tents of the Arab chiefs, and the means employed to divide them into several apartments, see Layard, Discoveries, p. 313, and the sketch on page 321.
[244] There is a photographic reproduction of these interesting reliefs in the fine publication undertaken by the Society of Biblical Archæology. This work, which is not yet (1883) complete, is entitled The Bronze Ornaments of the Gates of Balawat, Shalmaneser II. 859-825, edited, with an introduction, by Samuel Birch, with descriptions and translations by Theophilus G. Pinches, folio, London. The three first parts are before us. The motive reproduced above belongs to the plate marked F, 5.