a representation has been already given.  Two peculiarities marked the south-east facade.  In the first place, it lay in a perfectly straight line, unbroken by any projection, which is very unusual in Assyrian architecture.  In the second place, as if to compensate for this monotony in its facial line, it was pierced by no fewer than five doorways, all of considerable width, and two of them garnished with bulls, of namely, the second and the fourth.  The bulls of the second gateway were of the larger, those of the fourth were of the smaller size; they stood in the usual manner, a little withdrawn within the gateways and looking towards the spectator.

Of the curious building which closed in the court on the third or south-west side, which is believed to have been a temple, the remains are unfortunately very slight.  It stood so near the edge of the terrace that the greater part of it has fallen into the plain.  Less than half of the ground-plan is left, and only a few feet of the elevation.  The building may originally have been a square, or it may have been an oblong, as represented in the plan.  It was approached from the court by a a flight of stone stops, probably six in number, of which four remain in place.  This flight of steps was placed directly opposite to the central door of the south-west palace facade.  From the level of the court, to that of the top of the steps, a height of about six feet, a solid platform of crude brick was raised as a basis for the temple; and this was faced, probably throughout its whole extent, with a solid wall of hard black basalt, ornamented with a cornice in gray limestone, of which the accompanying figures are representations. [PLATE.  XLV., Fig. 4.] above this the external work has disappeared.  Internally, two chambers may be traced, floored with a mixture of stones and chalk; and round one of these are some fragments of bas-reliefs, representing sacred subjects, cut on the same black basalt as that by which the platform is cased, and sufficient to show that the same style of ornamentation prevailed here as in the palace.

The principal doorway on the north-west side of the Temple Court communicated by a passage, with another and similar doorway (d on the plan), which opened into a fourth court, the smallest and least ornamented of those on the upper platform.

The mass of building whereof this court occupied the centre, is believed to have constituted the hareem or private apartments of the monarch.  It adjoined the state apartments at its northern angle, but had no direct communication with them.  To enter it from them the visitor had either to cross the Temple Court and proceed by the passage above indicated, or else to go round by the great entrance (X in the plan ) and obtain admission by the grand portals on the south-west side of the outer court.  These latter portals, it is to be observed, are so placed as to command no view into the Hareem Court,