The representation No.  I. is from a slab at Khorsabad. [PLATE XLVII., Fig. 4.] It is placed on the summit of a hill, and is regarded by M. Botta as an altar.  No.  II. is from the same slab. [PLATE XLIX., Fig. 1.] It stands at the foot of the hill crowned by No.  I. It has been called a “fishing pavilion;” but it is most probably a small temple, since it bears a good deal of resemblance to other representations which are undoubted temples, as (particularly) to No.  V. No.  III., which is from Lord Aberdeen’s black stone, is certainly a temple, since it is accompanied by a priest, a sacred tree, and an ox for sacrifice. [PLATE XLIX., Fig. 2.] The representation No.  IV. is also thought to be a temple. [PLATE XLIX., Fig. 3.] It is of earlier date than any of the others, being taken from a slab belonging to the North-west Palace at Nimrud, and is remarkable in many ways.  First, the want of symmetry is curious, and unusual.  Irregular as are the palaces of the Assyrian kings, there is for the most part no want of regularity in their sacred buildings.  The two specimens here adduced (No.  II. and No.  III.) are proof of this; and such remains of actual temples as exist are in accordance with the sculptures in this particular.  The right-hand aisle in No.  IV., having nothing correspondent to it on the other side, is thus an anomaly in Assyrian architecture.  The patterning of the pillars with chevrons is also remarkable; and their capitals are altogether unique.  No.  V. is a temple of a more elaborate character. [PLATE XLIX., Fig. 4.] It is from the sculptures of Asshur-banipal, the son of Esar-haddon, and possesses several features of great interest.  The body of the temple is a columnar structure, exhibiting at either corner a broad pilaster surmounted by a capital composed of two sets of volutes placed one over the other.  Between the two pilasters are two pillars resting upon very extraordinary rounded bases, and crowned by capitals not unlike the Corinthian.  We might have supposed the bases mere figments of the sculptor, but for an independent evidence of the actual employment by the Assyrians of rounded pillar-bases.  Mr. Layard discovered at Koyunjik a set of “circular pedestals,” whereof he gives the representation which is figured. [PLATE LI., Fig. 1.] They appeared to form part of a double line of similar objects, extending from the edge of the platform to an entrance of the palace, and probably (as Mr. Layard suggests) supported the wooden pillars of a covered way by which the palace was approached on this side.  Above the pillars the temple (No.  V.) exhibits a heavy cornice or entablature projecting considerably, and finished at the top with a row of gradines. (Compare No.  II.) At one side of this main building is a small chapel or oratory, also finished with gradines, against the wall of which is a representation of a king, standing in a species of frame arched at the top.  A road leads straight up to this royal tablet, and in this