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Towns and their Defences. 67 upper chambers. 1 It would be curious to find the arrangement repeated here, but we cannot certainly say that it was so. On the other hand the situation of the doors by which the entrance into the city was barred is very clearly marked. At the point where the passage C opens into the transept D the sockets in which the metal feet of the door pivots were set, are still in place. 2 The state doorways are distinguished from their more humble companions, in the first place by a flight of eleven brick-built steps Fig. 25. — Restoration in perspective of one of the ordinary gates of Khorsabad ; from Place. which have to be mounted before the court A can be reached from the outside ; in the ordinary gateways a gentle inclination of the whole pavement of the court makes such steps unnecessary. A second difference is of more importance. At the entrance to the passage marked C on our plan the state doorways have a pair of winged bulls whose foreparts stand out a little from the wall while their backs support the arch. The latter is decorated with the semicircle of enamelled bricks of which we 1 Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. I. p. 342. 2 See Vol. I. Page 242, and Fig. 97.