At other times it occupied the roof of a building, probably raised for the purpose, and was supported upon a number of pillars.

[PLATE CXXXIX., Fig.

5.] The employments of the Assyrians, which receive some illustration from the monuments, are, besides war and hunting--subjects already discussed at length--chiefly building, boating, and agriculture.

Of agricultural laborers, there occur two or three only, introduced by the artists into a slab of Sennacherib's which represents the transport of a winged bull.
They are dressed in the ordinary short tunic and belt, and are employed in drawing water from a river by the help of hand-swipes for the purpose of irrigating their lands.

Boatmen are far more common.