CHAPTER II.
THE PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHALDAEO-ASSYRIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Sec. 1. Materials 114-126
Sec. 2. The General Principles of Form 126-146
Sec. 3. Construction 146-200
Sec. 4. The Column 200-221
Sec. 5. The Arch 221-236
Sec. 6. Secondary Forms 236-260
Sec. 7. Decoration 260-311
Sec. 8. On the Orientation of Buildings and Foundation Ceremonies 311-322
Sec. 9. Mechanical Resources 322-326
Sec. 10. On the Graphic Processes Employed in the Representations of Buildings 327-334
CHAPTER III.
FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE.
Sec. 1. Chaldaean and Assyrian Notions as to a Future Life 335-355
Sec. 2. The Chaldaean Tomb 355-363
CHAPTER IV.
RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE.
Sec. 1. Attempts to Restore the Principal Types 364-382
Sec. 2. Ruins of Staged Towers 382-391
Sec. 3. Subordinate Types of the Temple 391-398
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATES.
I. Babil To face page 154
II. Rectangular Chaldaean temple 370
III. Square double-ramped Chaldaean temple 378
IV. Square Assyrian temple 380
FIG. PAGE
1. Brick from Erech 24
2. Fragment of an inscription engraved upon the back of a statue from Tello 25
3. Seal of Ourkam 38
4. Genius in the attitude of adoration 42
5. Assurbanipal at the chase 45
6. Demons 61
7. Demons 62
8. Eagle-headed divinity 63
9. Anou or Dagon 64
10. Stone of Merodach-Baladan I 73
11. Assyrian cylinder 74
12. Assyrian cylinder 74
13. Gods carried in procession 75
14. Gods carried in procession 76
15. Statue of Nebo 81
16. Terra-cotta statuette 83
17. A Chaldaean cylinder 84
18. The winged globe 87
19. The winged globe with human figure 87
20. Chaldaean cylinder 95
21. Chaldaean cylinder 95
22. The King Sargon and his Grand Vizier 97
23. The suite of Sargon 99
24. The suite of Sargon 101
25. Fragment of a bas-relief in alabaster 105
26. Bas-relief of Tiglath Pileser II 106
27. Feast of Assurbanipal 107
28. Feast of Assurbanipal 108
29. Offerings to a god 109
30. Convoy of prisoners 111
31. Convoy of prisoners 112
32. Babylonian brick 118
33. Brick from Khorsabad 119
34. Temple 128
35. Tell-Ede, in Lower Chaldaea 129
36. Haman, in Lower Chaldaea 131
37. Babil, at Babylon 135
38. A fortress 138
39. View of a town and its palaces 140
40. House in Kurdistan 141
41. Temple on the bank of a river, Khorsabad 142
42. Temple in a royal park, Kouyundjik 143
43. View of a group of buildings, Kouyundjik 145
44. Plan of angle, Khorsabad 147
45. Section of wall through AB in Fig. 44 147
46. Elevation of wall, Khorsabad 148
47. Section in perspective through the south-western part of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad 149
48. Temple at Mugheir 154
49. Upper part of the drainage arrangements of a mound 159
50. Present state of one of the city gates, Khorsabad 161
51. Fortress; from the Balawat gates, in the British Museum 164
52. The palace at Firouz-Abad 170
53. The palace at Sarbistan 170
54. Section through the palace at Sarbistan 171
55. Restoration of a hall in the harem at Khorsabad 174
56. Royal tent, Kouyundjik 175
57. Tent, Kouyundjik 175
58. Interior of a Yezidi house 178
59. Fortress 180
60. Crude brick construction 181
61. Armenian "lantern" 183
62-65. Terra-cotta cylinders in elevation, section and plan 184
66. Outside staircases in the ruins of Abou-Sharein 191
67. Interior of the royal tent 193
68. Tabernacle; from the Balawat gates 194
69. The seal of Sennacherib 196
70. Type of open architecture in Assyria 197
71. Homage to Samas or Shamas 203
72. Sheath of a cedar-wood mast, bronze 205
73. Interior of a house supported by wooden pillars; from the gates of Balawat 206
74. Assyrian capital, in perspective 207
75. Capital; from a small temple 209
76. View of a palace 210
77. Capital; from a small temple 212
78. Capital 212
79. Chaldaean tabernacle 212
80. Ivory plaque found at Nimroud 212
81. The Tree of Life 213
82. Ornamental base, in limestone 214
83. Model of a base, side view 215
84. The same, seen from in front 215
85. Winged Sphinx carrying the base of a column 216
86. Facade of an Assyrian building 216
87, 88. Bases of columns 217
89. Tomb-chamber at Mugheir 222
90. Interior of a chamber in the harem of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad 225
91. Return round the angle of an archivolt in one of the gates of Dour-Saryoukin 227
92. Drain at Khorsabad, with pointed arch 229
93. Sewer at Khorsabad, with semicircular vault 232
94. Sewer at Khorsabad, with elliptical vault 233
95. Decorated lintel 238
96. Sill of a door, from Khorsabad 240
97. Bronze foot, from the Balawat gates, and its socket 243
98, 99. Assyrian mouldings. Section and elevation 245
100. Facade of a ruined building at Warka 246
101. Decoration of one of the harem gates, at Khorsabad 247
102. View of an angle of the Observatory at Khorsabad 249
103. Lateral facade of the palace at Firouz-Abad 251
104. Battlements from an Assyrian palace 251
105. Battlements from the Khorsabad Observatory 252
106. Battlements of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad 255
107. Altar 255