The relief is high; the forms, especially the animal ones, are spirited and well-proportioned.

The horses are especially good.

As M.Clermont-Ganneau says, "their forms and their movements are indicated with a great deal of precision and truth."[786] They show also a fair amount of variety; they stand, they walk, they trot, they gallop at full speed, always truthfully and naturally.

The stag, the hare, and the dog are likewise well portrayed; the ape has less merit; he is too human, too like a mere unkempt savage.

The human forms are about upon a par with those of the Assyrians and Egyptians, which have evidently served for their models, the Assyrian for the outer zone, the Egyptian for the medallion.