From the representation there given the reader may form a notion of the minuteness and elaboration of this entire series of bas-reliefs.
Besides constructing this new palace at Nineveh, Sennacherib seems also to have restored the ancient residence of the kings at the sane place, a building which will probably be found whenever the mound of Nebbi-Yunus is submitted to careful examination.

He confined the Tigris to its channel by an embankment of bricks.

He constructed a number of canals or aqueducts for the purpose of bringing good water to the capital.

He improved the defences of Nineveh, erecting towers of a vast size at some of the gates.

And, finally, he built a temple to the god Nergal at Tarbisi (now Sherif khan), about three miles from Nineveh up the Tigris.
In the construction of these great works he made use chiefly, of the forced labor with which his triumphant expeditions into foreign countries had so abundantly supplied him.