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 ORIENTATION AND FOUNDATION CEREMONIES. 3*3 which point to the north, south, east and west respectively. 1 In the large scale plans that we shall give farther on of the palace ^f^m^^m^^^ o loo 200 Soo 4oo Sao X" I I | 1 1 1 1 FIG. 144. Plan of the town and palace of Sargon at Khorsabad ; from Place. .and of some of its parts it will be seen that the parallelograms of 1 PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 17, 18. BOTTA had previously made the same observation (Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 25). S S