5O A HISTORY oi< ART IN CIIALD.F.A AND ASSYRIA. comes from a bas-relief, on vhich a circular fortress, divided into four equal parts by walls radiating from its centre, is portrayed. In this relief we find another favourite process of the Egyptians employed, namely, that in which a vertical section is combined with a projection, so that the interior of the building and its arrangements may be laid open to the spectator. In this instance we can see what is passing in the four principal FIG. 156. Plan, section, and elevation of a fortified city ; from Laynrd. chambers of the castle. In each chamber one or two persons are occupied over what appear to be religious rites. In another Nimroud bas-relief we find a still greater variety of processes used upon a single work (Fig. 156). The picture shows the king enthroned in the centre of a fortified city which he has just captured. Prisoners are being brought before him ; his victorious troops have erected their tents in the city itself. Beside these tents three houses of unequal size represent the dwellings of the conquered. The enceinte with
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