It is difficult to see what could be gained by such an arrangement.
The disposition of the various parts of a palace will probably be better apprehended from an exact account of a single building than from any further general statements.

For this purpose it is necessary to select a specimen from among the various edifices that have been disentombed by the labors of recent excavators.

The specimen should be, if possible, complete; it should have been accurately surveyed, and the survey should have been scientifically recorded; it should further stand single and separate, that there may be no danger of confusion between its remains and those of adjacent edifices.

These requirements, though nowhere exactly met, are very nearly met by the building at Khorsabad, which stands on a mound of its own, unmixed with other edifices, has been most carefully examined, and most excellently represented and described, and which, though not completely excavated, has been excavated with a nearer approach to completeness than any other edifice in Assyria.

The Khorsabad building--which is believed to be a palace built by Sargon, the son of Sennacherib--will therefore be selected for minute description in this place, as the palace most favorably circumstanced, and the one of which we have, on the whole, the most complete and exact knowledge.