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 Architecture. 47 recovered a series of carved stones around a tell at Saktchegheuksou, three of these at least represent a hunting scene (Fig. 279), the details being carried on from slab to slab. They are now built in the wall of a modern house, and the question as to the place they once occupied in the building for which they were designed is satisfactorily met by reference to similar pictures in the monumental ruins at Khorsa- bad and Nimroud. The same observa- tion applies to the nameless ruins near Alblstan already alluded to, where two lions carved on huge slabs have been found. One is still standing, but the other lies on its side, probably at the very en- trance where they were originally placed, like the winged bulls and