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gateway were of the larger, those of the fourth were of the smaller size; they stood in the usual manner, a little withdrawn within the gateways and looking towards the spectator.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.