[PLATE XLVI.] The upper part of this representation is indeed purely conjectural; and when we come to consider the mode in which the Assyrian palaces were roofed and lighted, we shall perhaps find reason to regard it as not very near the truth; but the lower part, up to the top of the sculptures, the court itself, and the various accessories, are correctly given, and furnish the only _perspective_ view of this part of the palace which has been as yet published.
[Illustration: PLATE 46] The great state apartments consisted of a suite of ten rooms.

Five of these were halls of large dimensions; one was a long and somewhat narrow chamber, and the remaining four were square or slightly oblong apartments of minor consequence.

All of them were lined throughout with sculpture.

The most important seem to have been three halls _en-suite_ (VIII., V., and II.

in the plan), which are, both in their external and internal decorations, by far the most splendid of the whole palace.