The third compartment is occupied with slabs, the sculptured subjects of which closely resemble those just described, except that marked 7, where the king, in his chariot, is hunting the lion.  He has had some success, as one royal beast lies dead under his horse’s feet, and another is pierced by four arrows.

The fourth compartment contains some interesting slabs.  The first two represent one continuous subject.  First, the visitor will notice the figure of an Assyrian monarch, with his chariots and attendants behind him, holding up arrows in token of peace to an advancing group, the first figure of which is addressing the king, while on one side a eunuch is introducing four captives.  The two following slabs present illustrations of the crossing of a river.  A boat, in which the royal chariot containing the king is deposited, is being dragged by two men ahead, while others are rowing, and behind follow horses and smaller boats.  In their delineations of battles, the Assyrians were sagacious, since they vividly pourtrayed the horrors of war, by carving dead figures in the back ground, with birds preying upon them, even before the fray is over.  Of this kind of vivid representation the visitor has a specimen on the next slab; where, while warriors are discharging their arrows, a dead soldier is being devoured by a bird in the back-ground, while another, as a pleasant suggestion of the impending fate of the survivors, hovers above their heads.  The passage of troops over mountainous country, or through jungle, is the subject illustrated in the two following slabs (6,7); these are from Khorsabad, and include an inscription with the name of the monarch of that locality.  Two slingers appear on the eighth slab, with archers attacking.  On the next slab (9) enemies are represented in full flight, with a chariot containing two figures in hot pursuit:  and on the last slab in this compartment, a city, with four battlemented towers is represented, with women standing between the towers, and chariots outside the walls.

Some curious fragments of large figures are included in the fifth compartment.  First, there is a bearded head covered with a horned cap; also, the bust of a figure with the conical cap of the Assyrians:  then the head of a figure, with traces of paint yet upon it, crowned with a tiara of rosettes.  Here also is a fragment representing a king attended by a strange symbolical winged figure holding the popular fir-cone in his right hand, and in his left a basket, of which the visitor will remark a perfect specimen presently.  The examination of these fragments will conduct the visitor to the end of the room, and before turning to examine the contents of the opposite compartments, he should pause to notice an obelisk placed hereabouts, which was dug from the centre of the great mound at Nimroud.  It is seven feet in height, and is inscribed elaborately in the cuneiform character.  On its surface are also engraved representations of various animals bearing presents.