[PLATE CXXXVIII., Fig.

3.] These were probably placed on stands, like those which are often seen supporting jars, and dispersed about the apartment in which the feast was held, but not put upon the tables.
We have no knowledge of the ordinary houses of the Assyrians other than that which we derive from the single representation which the sculptures furnish of a village certainly Assyrian.

It appears from this specimen that the houses were small, isolated from one another, and either flat-roofed, or else covered in with a dome or a high cone.

They had no windows, but must have been lighted from the top, where, in some of the roofs, an aperture is discernible.

The doorway was generally placed towards one end of the house; it was sometimes arched, but more often square-headed.
The doors in Assyrian houses were either single, as commonly with ourselves, or folding (_fores_ or _valvoe_), as with the Greeks and Romans, and with the modern French and Italians.