1] introduces us to another kind of Assyrian temple, or perhaps it should rather be said to another feature of Assyrian temples--common to them with Babylonian--the tower or ziggurat.

This appears to have been always built in stages, which probably varied in number--never, how-ever, so far as appears, exceeding seven.

The sculptured example before us, which is from a bas-relief found at Koyunjik, distinctly exhibits four stages, of which the topmost, owing to the destruction of the upper portion of the tablet, is imperfect.

It is not unlikely that in this instance there was above the fourth a fifth stage, consisting of a shrine like that which at Babylon crowned the great temple of Belus.

The complete elevation would then have been nearly as in No.VII._b_.