Note 126 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE.
Walter Armstrong translation
At Nimroud, in the palace of Esarhaddon, the lions and bulls of the gateways are of a grey and rather coarse limestone, while the bas-reliefs are of alabaster (Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. pp. 26 and 163). The same mixture occurs in the palace of Assurnazirpal. Several of the bulls in that building are of a fine yellow limestone which must have been brought from the hills of Kurdistan (Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 315).