Botta thought he was excavating Nineveh, but it was actually Dur-Sharruken, Sargon’s city.

Paul-Emile Botta, Monument de Ninive, 5 vol. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1849–50). Flandin’s original drawing has recently been published in Pauline Albenda, The Palace of Sargon, King of Assyria (Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilizations, 1986), pp. 91, 110f, plate 133.