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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... Earliest Vessels - Later Vessels , as represented at Khorsabad and Kouyunjik - Enemies of the Assyrians , distinguished by their Dress - Armenians and Parthians or Persians - Captives and Tribute from India -- The Arabs - The Jews - The ...
... Earliest Vessels - Later Vessels , as represented at Khorsabad and Kouyunjik - Enemies of the Assyrians , distinguished by their Dress - Armenians and Parthians or Persians - Captives and Tribute from India -- The Arabs - The Jews - The ...
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... earliest palace was written upon all these bricks . No remains , however , of sculptured slabs or inscriptions were discovered ; but many small objects of con- siderable interest were occasionally taken out of the rubbish : amongst them ...
... earliest palace was written upon all these bricks . No remains , however , of sculptured slabs or inscriptions were discovered ; but many small objects of con- siderable interest were occasionally taken out of the rubbish : amongst them ...
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... early in the afternoon . They were pitched about ten miles to the north of Kalah Sherghat , at the upper end of a long slip of rich alluvial soil , lying between the river and the range of low hills parallel to it . The great mound was ...
... early in the afternoon . They were pitched about ten miles to the north of Kalah Sherghat , at the upper end of a long slip of rich alluvial soil , lying between the river and the range of low hills parallel to it . The great mound was ...
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... earliest times , in the East . Friends and strangers are not always exempted from the rules of this philosophy , and , as re- ciprocity is as little understood in the Asiatic , as in the Euro- pean system , their property is made no ...
... earliest times , in the East . Friends and strangers are not always exempted from the rules of this philosophy , and , as re- ciprocity is as little understood in the Asiatic , as in the Euro- pean system , their property is made no ...
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... early period , for purposes of irrigation , or to supply water to the inhabitants of the city ; and may have been buried , like the surrounding buildings , long before the erection of the upper edifices , and even before the time of the ...
... early period , for purposes of irrigation , or to supply water to the inhabitants of the city ; and may have been buried , like the surrounding buildings , long before the erection of the upper edifices , and even before the time of the ...
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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