There was also a chamber within the structure containing the machinery by which the water was raised.
Of the smaller palace, which was opposite to the larger one, on the other side the river, but few details have come down to us.

Like the larger palace, it was guarded by a triple enclosure, the entire circuit of which measured (it is said) thirty stades.

It contained a number of bronze statues, which the Greeks believed to represent the god Belus, and the sovereigns Ninus and Semiramis, together with their officers.
The walls were covered with battle scenes and hunting scenes, vividly represented by means of bricks painted and enamelled.
Such was the general character of the town and its chief edifices, if we may believe the descriptions of eye-witnesses.

The walls which enclosed and guarded the whole--or which, perhaps one should rather say, guarded the district within which Babylon was placed--have been already mentioned as remarkable for their great extent, but cannot be dismissed without a more special and minute description.

Like the "Hanging Gardens," they were included among the "world's seven wonders," and, according to every account given of them, their magnitude and construction were remarkable.
It has been already noticed that, according to the lowest of the ancient estimates, the entire length of the walls was 360 stades, or more than forty-one miles.