The side chambers, five in number, were considerably smaller than those behind the great hall, the largest not exceeding thirty-four feet by thirteen.
It seems probable that this palace was without any second story.

There is no vestige in any part of it of a staircase--no indication of its height having ever exceeded from twenty-two to twenty-five feet.

It was a modest building, simple and regular, covering less than half the space of an ordinary palace in Assyria.

[PLATE XLV., Fig.

2.] Externally, it must have presented an appearance not very dissimilar to that of the simpler Greek temples; distinguished from them by peculiarities of ornamentation, but by no striking or important feature, excepting the grand and elaborately sculptured staircase.