Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
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XIV. _Second Assyrian Room._—This would contain a continuation of the
series from Nimroud. On the west side the colossal winged lions now in
the western compartment of the Assyrian Transept, which would complete
the monuments of Sardanapalus I; in other parts of the room, the few
but important sculptures of Divanubara, Shammaz-Phal, and Pul, now
somewhat scattered for want of the requisite accommodation in room,
but for which there would here be ample space, and an advantageous
light.
[Sidenote: THIRD ASSYRIAN ROOM.]
XV. A proposed new room, to be entitled the _Third Assyrian or
Khorsabad Room_, the Assistant-Keeper’s study being removed, and
accommodation being provided for him elsewhere. The room might be
forty-seven feet by forty, about the same height as XIV, and similarly
lighted by a central skylight; beneath it would be a basement room for
the uses of the establishment. Room XV would contain, first, the
bas-reliefs of Tiglathpileser II from the South-west edifice of
Nimroud; and secondly, the Khorsabad collection, or monuments of
Sargina, which is next in chronological order to the Nimroud
collection. The two colossal bulls of Sargina are marked in the plan
as facing each other, an arrangement common at Khorsabad. Deducting
space for the bulls, upwards of eighty linear feet of wall-surface
would remain in the room, which is considerably more than the
bas-reliefs of Tiglathpileser and Sargina require. The new building
would necessarily obscure some of the windows of the adjoining
basement, but this is of minor importance; and the evil might be
diminished on the western and southern side, by leaving open spaces in
the floor behind each of the colossal bulls. Between the bulls would
be a passage to
[Sidenote: FOURTH ASSYRIAN ROOM.]
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