There were 38,000 hangings , including ;
...curtains of gold-of brocade embroidered with golf-all magnificently figured with representations of drinking-vessels and with elephants and horses , camels , lion and birds... The number of carpets and mats of the kinds made at jahram and darabgird and Ad-Dawrak was 22,000 piece ; there were laid in corridors and courts , being spread under the feet of the nobles , and the byzantine envoys walked over such carpets all the way from the main gate right to the presence of the caliph - but this number did not include the fine rugs in the chambers and halls of ussembly , spread over the other carpets , and these were not to be trodden with the feet... then they came to a palace where there were 100 lion , 50 to the right - hand and 50 the left , lion being held in by the hand of its keeper , and about its head and neck were iron chains.