[227] In the cupola of the palace at Sarbistan (Fig. 54), a window may be perceived in the upper part of the vertical wall, between the pendentives of the dome. Such openings may well have been pierced under Assyrian domes. From many of the illustrations we have given, it will be seen that the Ninevite architects had no objection to windows, provided they could be placed in the upper part of the wall. It is of windows like ours, pierced at a foot or two above the ground, that no examples have been found. [228] PLACE. _Ninive_, vol. i. pp. 312-314. [229] PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. i. p. 313. [230] _Ibid._ p. 310 [231] PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. i. p. 311. [232] PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. i. p. 307. [233] See BOTTA, _Monument de Ninive_, vol. v. p. 53; _Place_, _Ninive_, vol. i. pp. 306, 307. [234] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. p. 15. [235] TAYLOR, _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. xv. p. 409. [236] LAYARD, _Discoveries_, p. 260. [237] LAYARD, _Discoveries_, pp. 645-6. [238] LAYARD, _Monuments_, &c., first series, plate 19. This relief is reproduced in PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. iii. plate 40, fig. 6. [239] British Museum; Kouyundjik Gallery, Nos. 34-43. See also LAYARD'S _Monuments_, plates 8 and 9.--ED. [240] A second inclined gallery of the same kind was found by LAYARD in another of the Kouyundjik palaces (_Discoveries_, p. 650). [241] PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. i. pp. 306, 307. [242] PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. i. p. 140. [243] As to the great size sometimes reached by the tents of the Arab chiefs, and the means employed to divide them into several apartments, see LAYARD, _Discoveries_, p. 313, and the sketch on page 321. [244] There is a photographic reproduction of these interesting reliefs in the fine publication undertaken by the Society of Biblical Archaeology. This work, which is not yet (1883) complete, is entitled _The Bronze Ornaments of the Gates of Balawat_, _Shalmaneser_ II. 859-825, edited, with an introduction, by Samuel BIRCH, with descriptions and translations by Theophilus G. PINCHES, folio, London. The three first parts are before us. The motive reproduced above belongs to the plate marked F, 5. [245] They are to be found on the sheet provisionally numbered B, 1, in the publication above referred to. [246] This cylinder, which is now in the British Museum, was perhaps the actual signet of the king. [247] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. p. 272. [248] LAYARD, _Monuments of Nineveh_, first series, plate 77; second series, plates 24 and 36. [249] _Genesis_, xiii. 12. [250] _Genesis_, xix. Sec. 4.--_The Column._