2.] The Koyunjik mound, which lies to the north-west of the other, at the distance of 900 yards, or a little more than half a mile, is very much the more considerable of the two.

Its shape is an irregular oval, elongated to a point towards the north-east, in the line of its greater axis.

The surface is nearly flat; the sides slope at a steep angle, and are furrowed with numerous ravines, worn in the soft material by the rains of some thirty centuries.

The greatest height of the mound above the plum is towards the south-eastern extremity, where it overhangs the small stream of the Khosr; the elevation in this part being about ninety-five feet.

The area covered by the mound is estimated at a hundred acres, and the entire mass is said to contain 14,500,000 tons of earth.