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DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.
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(B) A winged figure, with a stag on the left arm, and a symbolical flower in the right hand (No. 29,
ch. b, same plan).
These 6gures are either those of presiding divinities, or of priests, invested with sacred attributes.
PLATE 36.----(A) WINGED FIGURE BEARING A FIR-CONE.
(B) EAGLE-HEADED DIVINITY (? NISROCH).
(A) Winged figure, bearing a fir-cone in the elevated right hand, and a square utensil, or basket, in the
left. Both these objects appear to have been symbolical, or to have been used for sacrificial purposes. This
figure is remarkable for the richness and elegance of the embroideries on the robes (No. 3, ch. p, plan 3,
Nimroud).
(B) Winged eagle-headed figure (No. 32, ch. b, plan 3, Nimroud). This figure is conjectured to represent
the God Nisroch, in whose temple Sennacherib was slain by his sons. Nisroch was an Assyrian idol, and its
name, which in the Semitic languages means an eagle, suggests its identification with this bas-relief.
PLATE 37.—two winged figures.
Both raise their extended right hands. One (No. 4, ch. p, plan 3, Nimroud) wears a horned cap, and holds
an instrument resembling a mace in the left hand. The other (No. 9> ch. s, of same plan) has a garland round
the temples, and carries a branch with five flowers.
PLATE 38.—two winged figures, both wearing the horned cap.
One (No. 2, entrance c, ch. s, plan 3, Nimroud) elevates the extended right hand, and carries a branch with
three flowers of peculiar shape in the left. The other (No. 1, entrance a, ch. t, of same plan) bears a branch with
six flowers, resembling the fruit of the poppy, in the right hand, and a mace in the left.
PLATE 39.----(A) TWO KINGS kneeling beneath the emblem of the deity.
(B) A CASTLE ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER.
(A) This group is introduced as an ornament on the robes of a King (No. 7, ch. c, plan 3, Nimroud). Between
the Kings is the sacred tree or flower, above which is the emblem of the Supreme Deity, here represented by a
winged circle or disk. The kneeling Kings hold a kind of bident in the left hand. This is evidently a sacred
emblem, and generally accompanies the figures of the sun, moon, stars, and horned cap.
(No. 2, wall/, plan 2, Nimroud).
(B) A woman on the battlements is tearing her hair. A figure, crouched beneath the walls, has caught a
fish with a line. Two figures are bearing vases and a cauldron. This fragment of a bas-relief, although built into
the walls of the South-West Edifice, evidently belongs to the North-West Palace. More than half the sculpture
has been destroyed to make the stone fit into the wall.
PLATE 40.----A SUBJECT PEOPLE BRINGING TRIBUTE.
(No. 7, ch. d, plan 3, Nimroud).
The first figure, wearing a conical cap, apparently made up of bands, is raising his two clenched hands, probably
in act of homage or submission. The second brings two monkeys, one seated on his shoulder, the other rising on
its hind legs in front of him. The people represented in the series of bas-reliefs to which this sculpture belongs
were probably inhabitants of some distant country conquered by the Assyrians; and they appear to be connected,
by costume, with the nation represented on the Obelisk, as bringing the elephant, rhinoceros, and Bactrian camel.
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(B) A winged figure, with a stag on the left arm, and a symbolical flower in the right hand (No. 29,
ch. b, same plan).
These 6gures are either those of presiding divinities, or of priests, invested with sacred attributes.
PLATE 36.----(A) WINGED FIGURE BEARING A FIR-CONE.
(B) EAGLE-HEADED DIVINITY (? NISROCH).
(A) Winged figure, bearing a fir-cone in the elevated right hand, and a square utensil, or basket, in the
left. Both these objects appear to have been symbolical, or to have been used for sacrificial purposes. This
figure is remarkable for the richness and elegance of the embroideries on the robes (No. 3, ch. p, plan 3,
Nimroud).
(B) Winged eagle-headed figure (No. 32, ch. b, plan 3, Nimroud). This figure is conjectured to represent
the God Nisroch, in whose temple Sennacherib was slain by his sons. Nisroch was an Assyrian idol, and its
name, which in the Semitic languages means an eagle, suggests its identification with this bas-relief.
PLATE 37.—two winged figures.
Both raise their extended right hands. One (No. 4, ch. p, plan 3, Nimroud) wears a horned cap, and holds
an instrument resembling a mace in the left hand. The other (No. 9> ch. s, of same plan) has a garland round
the temples, and carries a branch with five flowers.
PLATE 38.—two winged figures, both wearing the horned cap.
One (No. 2, entrance c, ch. s, plan 3, Nimroud) elevates the extended right hand, and carries a branch with
three flowers of peculiar shape in the left. The other (No. 1, entrance a, ch. t, of same plan) bears a branch with
six flowers, resembling the fruit of the poppy, in the right hand, and a mace in the left.
PLATE 39.----(A) TWO KINGS kneeling beneath the emblem of the deity.
(B) A CASTLE ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER.
(A) This group is introduced as an ornament on the robes of a King (No. 7, ch. c, plan 3, Nimroud). Between
the Kings is the sacred tree or flower, above which is the emblem of the Supreme Deity, here represented by a
winged circle or disk. The kneeling Kings hold a kind of bident in the left hand. This is evidently a sacred
emblem, and generally accompanies the figures of the sun, moon, stars, and horned cap.
(No. 2, wall/, plan 2, Nimroud).
(B) A woman on the battlements is tearing her hair. A figure, crouched beneath the walls, has caught a
fish with a line. Two figures are bearing vases and a cauldron. This fragment of a bas-relief, although built into
the walls of the South-West Edifice, evidently belongs to the North-West Palace. More than half the sculpture
has been destroyed to make the stone fit into the wall.
PLATE 40.----A SUBJECT PEOPLE BRINGING TRIBUTE.
(No. 7, ch. d, plan 3, Nimroud).
The first figure, wearing a conical cap, apparently made up of bands, is raising his two clenched hands, probably
in act of homage or submission. The second brings two monkeys, one seated on his shoulder, the other rising on
its hind legs in front of him. The people represented in the series of bas-reliefs to which this sculpture belongs
were probably inhabitants of some distant country conquered by the Assyrians; and they appear to be connected,
by costume, with the nation represented on the Obelisk, as bringing the elephant, rhinoceros, and Bactrian camel.