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 394 A HISTORY OF ART i 7 CHALD.EA AND ASSYRIA. the doors were flanked by winged lions or bulls, like those of the royal palaces. The walls of the larger temple were decorated with glazed bricks. These temples of the second class lent themselves to a great variety of forms. Some of them had their fa9ades crowned by a triangular pediment, like those of the Greek temples (Fig. 190). It is true that the Khorsabad relief whence we copy this peculiar arrangement deals with the capture of an Armenian city, Mousasir, WM^^^^XMKB^ -5v // .^A .^Tr^r^k Y/>^yV,. I > ^ -.. ^ Flo. 190. Temple with triangular pediment ; from Botta. called in the narrative of Sargon's conquests "the dwelling of the god Haldia," 1 whose temple must be here figured by the sculptor Must we believe that the artist has given his temple a form nfamihar to himself in deference to the accounts of those who which the chief events are recounted, will be found in the long and important inscnptum translated by M. OPP ERT, under the title : Annalts ^ Sar g on PLACE
 * This expedition took place in the eighth year of Sargon's reign. The passage in