onuments have been taken to enrich theBritish Museum. The mound of Kouyundjik in its present state is an irregularpentagon. Its circumference is rather more than a mile and ahalf. The palace of Sennacherib occupies the south-westerncorner, and forms a rectangle about 600 feet long by 330 wide.The… … g» I >» Fig. 20.—Part plan of the palace of Sennacherib ; from Layard. stood out beyond the line of the façade, and were separated fromeach other by colossal genii.1 About sixteen halls and chambershave been counted round the three courtyards. As at Khorsabad,some of these are long galleries,…
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