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Part I.

(No. 62), representing what still remained o£ them when uncovered by
M. Botta, and now forming one of the principal ornaments of the British
Museum. These portals were reached from the city by a flight of steps,
now entirely destroyed, but which there can be little difficulty in
restoring from what we find at Persepolis and elsewhere.

These portals ied to the great outer court of the palace, measuring
315 ft. by 280 between the buttresses with which it was adorned all

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61. Plan of Palace at Khorsabad, as completely excavated by M. Place. The parts

tinted were actually found. Those in outline are conjectural.

round. On the right hand were six or seven smaller courts surrounded
by the stables and outhouses of the palace, which were approached by
a ramp on the outside, at the head of which was a block of builclings
containing the cellarage, and generally the stores of eatables. On the
left hand of this court were the metal stores, each room having been

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