19/170 Either an inclined-way or a flight of steps--probably the latter--must have led up from the outer court to this terrace. Here the visitor found another portal or propylaeum of a magnificent character. 1.] Midway in the south-east side of the lower terrace, and about fifty feet from its edge, stood this grand structure, gateway ninety-feet in width, and at least twenty-five in depth, having on each side three winged bulls of gigantic size, two of them fifteen feet high, and the third nineteen feet. Between the two small bulls, which styled back to back, presenting their sides to the spectator, was a colossal figure, strangling a lion--the Assyria Hercules, according to most writers. |