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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE,

Part I.

by no such association, cut the knot at once, ancl saved them the

trouble.

In 1885, M. Marcel
Dieulafoy turned his
attention to the excava-
tions as left by Loftus,
and conceiving the idea
that the principal en-
trance should be sought
for on the south side of
the palace, he cut his
trenches in a north-east

direction and discovered

the traces of the walls

enclosing the court in
front of the palace.
These walls were faced
with enamelled beton
blocks. Portionsofthese
enamels hacl disap-
peared, but sufficient
remained, as the walls
had fallen on their
faces, to allow of their
being placed in their
relative positions. Prom
these fragments M.
Dieulafoy was able to
put together a frieze of
lions not clissimilar to
those founcl in the
palace of Sargon at
Khorsabad, with de-
coratHe borders above
ancl below, the whole
crowned by a battle-
ment, also in enamelled
colours. The lowerpor-
tion of the wall was
covered wuth unglazed
bricks of two colours,
red and white, arranged
in cliaper patterns. Con-
tinuing the trench, M.
Dieulafoy discovered the great staircase placed at the .south side of the