Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Inquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 1George P. Putnam, 1849 - 373 pages |
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... lower part of an Assyrian figure , carved in relief on basalt , dug up , it was said , in the mound , was actually brought to me ; but I had afterwards reason to suspect that it was discovered at Khorsabad . Excavations were carried on ...
... lower part of an Assyrian figure , carved in relief on basalt , dug up , it was said , in the mound , was actually brought to me ; but I had afterwards reason to suspect that it was discovered at Khorsabad . Excavations were carried on ...
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... lower part of the face , and the neck . The left hand , the arm being extended , grasped a bow at full stretch ; whilst the right , drawing the string to the ear , held an arrow ready to be discharged . A second warrior urged , with the ...
... lower part of the face , and the neck . The left hand , the arm being extended , grasped a bow at full stretch ; whilst the right , drawing the string to the ear , held an arrow ready to be discharged . A second warrior urged , with the ...
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... lower bas - relief on No. 1. represented the siege of a castle , or walled city . To the left were two warriors , each holding a circular shield in one hand , and a short sword in the other . A tunic , confined at " The Monuments of ...
... lower bas - relief on No. 1. represented the siege of a castle , or walled city . To the left were two warriors , each holding a circular shield in one hand , and a short sword in the other . A tunic , confined at " The Monuments of ...
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... lower as reversed , was occupied by two war- riors ; the foremost in a pointed helmet , riding on one horse and leading a second ; the other , without helmet , standing in a chariot , and holding the reins loosely in his hands . The ...
... lower as reversed , was occupied by two war- riors ; the foremost in a pointed helmet , riding on one horse and leading a second ; the other , without helmet , standing in a chariot , and holding the reins loosely in his hands . The ...
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... lower part of several gigantic figures , un- injured by fire . * It was from this place that in the time of Ahmed Pasha , materials were taken for re- building the tomb of Sultan Abd - Allah , and the slabs had been sawn in half , and ...
... lower part of several gigantic figures , un- injured by fire . * It was from this place that in the time of Ahmed Pasha , materials were taken for re- building the tomb of Sultan Abd - Allah , and the slabs had been sawn in half , and ...
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Botta bricks brought building bull carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures compartments desert discovered district encampment entrance eunuch excavations facing feet fir-cone followed formed fragments hand head Hormuzd Rassam horned cap horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants Ismail Pasha Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lions lower Melek Mesopotamia Mohammed Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans Nestorian Nestorian Chaldæans Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Pasha Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests ravine reached returned river rocks rode round ruins sacred salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Syria Tatar tents Tigris Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe uncovered Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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Page 71 - me had but now appeared to bear witness in the words of the prophet, that once '* the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high ^stature; and his top was among the thick boughs .... his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were
Page 71 - long, because of the multitude of waters when he shot forth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations;
Page 71 - a desolation and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her: all the beasts of the nations, both the cormorant and bittern, lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice sings in the windows; and desolation is in the thresholds.
Page 46 - between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." A steady rain setting in, I left the horsemen, and returned to the village. In the evening Daoud Agha brought back with him a prisoner and two of his followers severely wounded. He had fallen in with a party of
Page 301 - is an abomination ; and never to be worn in dress, or to be used in their houses. Their Kubleh, or the place to which they look whilst performing their holy ceremonies, is that part of the heavens in which the sun rises, and towards it they turn the faces of their dead.
Page 67 - peace be with him! cursed before the flood" In this opinion, the result of a careful examination, all the bystanders concurred. I now ordered a trench to be dug due south from the head, in the expectation of
Page 24 - night and day, so that he built himself a room of glass in yonder palace, that he might dwell therein, and shut out the insect. But the gnat entered also, and passed by his ear into his brain, upon which it fed, and increased in size day by day, so that the servants of
Page 20 - his teeth in masticating the food he condescends to receive from the inhabitants. On entering Mosul, he had induced several of the principal Aghas who had fled from the town on his approach, to return to their homes ; and having made a formal display of oaths and protestations, cut their throats to
Page 133 - emblem of the supreme deity — a human figure, with the wings and tail of a bird, enclosed in a circle, and holding a ring in one hand, resembling the image so frequently occurring on the early sculptures of Persia, and at one time conjectured to be the Zoroastrian
Page 292 - round the pedlars who exposed their wares for sale in the court-yard. Thousands of lights were reflected in the fountains and streams, glimmered amongst the foliage of the trees, and danced in the distance. As I was gazing on this extraordinary scene, the hum of human voices was