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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... belong to a City on the Syrian Coast dur- ing the Persian Occupation . Page 284 Castle of a maritime People , probably the Tyrians . ( Kouyunjik . ) Page 284 A Galley . ( Kouyunjik . ) Page 297 Flying Warrior discharging an Arrow ...
... belong to a City on the Syrian Coast dur- ing the Persian Occupation . Page 284 Castle of a maritime People , probably the Tyrians . ( Kouyunjik . ) Page 284 A Galley . ( Kouyunjik . ) Page 297 Flying Warrior discharging an Arrow ...
Page 24
... belong to the same period as the rest of the palace . However , this is liable to doubt . The bulls , as it has already been pointed out , * may have stood alone on the platform , and may have been placed long previous to the ...
... belong to the same period as the rest of the palace . However , this is liable to doubt . The bulls , as it has already been pointed out , * may have stood alone on the platform , and may have been placed long previous to the ...
Page 34
... belong to either the northwest , or the centre palace . They appear to be of the same period as the bas - reliefs on wall q , † already described . In the lower com- partment of No. 1 was a charioteer , in a highly ornamented chariot ...
... belong to either the northwest , or the centre palace . They appear to be of the same period as the bas - reliefs on wall q , † already described . In the lower com- partment of No. 1 was a charioteer , in a highly ornamented chariot ...
Page 115
... belong to a more recent period than the Assyrian bas - reliefs ; but their date has not been satisfactorily determined , and they may after all have been wha ' Mr. Ross conjectures . 1 I will defer to another chapter any further remarks ...
... belong to a more recent period than the Assyrian bas - reliefs ; but their date has not been satisfactorily determined , and they may after all have been wha ' Mr. Ross conjectures . 1 I will defer to another chapter any further remarks ...
Page 126
... belong to a very early period , without pretending to decide their exact age . The inquiry is one of considerable importance , for upon its results depend many questions of the highest interest connected with the history of civilization ...
... belong to a very early period , without pretending to decide their exact age . The inquiry is one of considerable importance , for upon its results depend many questions of the highest interest connected with the history of civilization ...
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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