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 2G. P. Putnam, 1851 |
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... amongst the Arabs - They leave the Ruins - Rafts prepared for the Transport of the Sculptures to Busrah - The Lion and Bull placed upon them - Their Departure from Nimroud - Return of the Arabs - Excavations commenced in the Pyramid ...
... amongst the Arabs - They leave the Ruins - Rafts prepared for the Transport of the Sculptures to Busrah - The Lion and Bull placed upon them - Their Departure from Nimroud - Return of the Arabs - Excavations commenced in the Pyramid ...
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... amongst other Spoil , from a captured City . ( Khorsabad ) Page 303 Enemies of the Assyrians discharging their Arrows behind them . ( Kouyunjik . ) Page 297 Bactrian or two - humped Camels . ( Obelisk , Nimroud . ) Page 330 Elephant ...
... amongst other Spoil , from a captured City . ( Khorsabad ) Page 303 Enemies of the Assyrians discharging their Arrows behind them . ( Kouyunjik . ) Page 297 Bactrian or two - humped Camels . ( Obelisk , Nimroud . ) Page 330 Elephant ...
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... amongst men of various kinds , to meet . visited his monument on my return to Constantinople . From the lofty terrace , where it stands , the eye wanders over the vast plains of Mesopotamia , stretching to the Euphrates - in spring one ...
... amongst men of various kinds , to meet . visited his monument on my return to Constantinople . From the lofty terrace , where it stands , the eye wanders over the vast plains of Mesopotamia , stretching to the Euphrates - in spring one ...
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... Amongst them were groups of figures similar to those repre- sented on the walls of the palace , such as the king slaying the lion , and hunting the bull ; winged figures before the sacred tree ; religious emblems ; various animals and ...
... Amongst them were groups of figures similar to those repre- sented on the walls of the palace , such as the king slaying the lion , and hunting the bull ; winged figures before the sacred tree ; religious emblems ; various animals and ...
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... amongst them I may mention a fe- male head in white alabaster , highly ornamented and showing traces of color . † A trench having been opened on the southern edge of the mound , an outer wall , built of squared stones , or rather slabs ...
... amongst them I may mention a fe- male head in white alabaster , highly ornamented and showing traces of color . † A trench having been opened on the southern edge of the mound , an outer wall , built of squared stones , or rather slabs ...
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according alabaster amongst ancient animals appears Arabs Armenia Asia Minor Assyrian empire Assyrian king Assyrian monuments Assyrian sculptures Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs Belus British Museum building carried castle Centre Palace Chaldæans chambers character chariots colors conjectured Ctesias cuneiform deity described Diodorus Diodorus Siculus discovered divinity dynasty earliest early edifices Egypt Egyptian emblems entrance eunuchs Euphrates evidently excavations feet fragments frequently gold Greek head helmets Herodotus horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions ivory Kalah Sherghat Khorsabad Kouyunjik Major Rawlinson mentioned ments Mesopotamia monarch Mosul mound N. W. Palace nations Nimroud Nineveh Ninus northwest palace obelisk ornaments painted palace of Nimroud period Persian placed probably rafts remains represented resembling river round ruins sacred scarcely sculptures seen Semiramis shields side silver slabs spears stone sun-dried bricks syrian tablet temple tents Tigris tion tomb traces trees trenches ture vases walls warriors whilst winged bulls winged figures Xenophon