2], as it is also in the monolith bulls and lions universally.

Otherwise, the proportions of the figures are commonly correct.

They bear a resemblance to the archaic Greek, especially to that form of it which we find in the sculptures from Branchidae.

They have just the same rudeness, heaviness, and stiff formality.

It is difficult to judge of their execution, as they have mostly suffered great injury from the hand of man, or from the weather; but the royal statue here represented, which is in better preservation than any other Assyrian work "in the round" that has come down to us, exhibits a rather high finish.