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 The Palace. Eyuk. i6' the only one whose sinister, holding a lituus, is preserved. The interposing figure is even more mutilated ; the hand is gone, but the curved bit which extends to the following block apparently belonged to some kind of instrument carried in the hand. We now come to the most distinct group of the series, that upon which the skill of the carver is seen to greater advantage. It represents a priest clothed in the usual long robes, whose head is much injured and one arm almost obliterated. He is followed by two 1 ic. 332.— Cai.nj at L}uK sets of rams driven to the sacrifice, the one on the same plane with the priest, and the other immediately above it (Fig. 334). By this conventional arrangement the artist wished to convey the idea of a large number, a whole flock. ^ Here a stone, 93 c. long, which must also have been worked, is wanting (see plan, Fig. 324). If, as seems likely, the altar (Fig. 328) and the bull (F'ig. 329) were the counterparts of personages that at lasili-Kaia stand upon ^ In respect of tlic ignorance of perspective betrayed by a similar contrivance, see La YARD, Monuments of Nineveh, vol. i. Plates LIX. and LX., and early part of this v(.rk.