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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... Edifice - Crouching Sphinxes - Sculptures - A Descrip- tion of the Bas - reliefs - Small Figures in unbaked Clay - A Beam of Wood- Discovery of more Tombs in the Southeast corner - of Chambers beneath them - of an arched or vaulted Room ...
... Edifice - Crouching Sphinxes - Sculptures - A Descrip- tion of the Bas - reliefs - Small Figures in unbaked Clay - A Beam of Wood- Discovery of more Tombs in the Southeast corner - of Chambers beneath them - of an arched or vaulted Room ...
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... edifices and the position of the chambers . The northwest palace was naturally the most interesting portion of the ruins , and to it were principally directed my researches . I had satified myself beyond a doubt that it was the most ...
... edifices and the position of the chambers . The northwest palace was naturally the most interesting portion of the ruins , and to it were principally directed my researches . I had satified myself beyond a doubt that it was the most ...
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... edifice . Each slab , however , in chamber L , is occupied by only one figure , -a gigantic winged divinity , or priest , - and is not divided into two compartments , as in chamber I. But it is remarkable that on the slab No. 20 , there ...
... edifice . Each slab , however , in chamber L , is occupied by only one figure , -a gigantic winged divinity , or priest , - and is not divided into two compartments , as in chamber I. But it is remarkable that on the slab No. 20 , there ...
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... edifice did not end here . It was some time before I discovered that I was now digging into chambers formed by walls of sun - dried bricks , over which a thin coating of plaster had been laid . They had been painted with figures and ...
... edifice did not end here . It was some time before I discovered that I was now digging into chambers formed by walls of sun - dried bricks , over which a thin coating of plaster had been laid . They had been painted with figures and ...
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... edifice . Between the bulls and lions , forming the entrances in different parts of the palace , were invariably found a large collection of baked bricks , ela- borately painted with figures of animals , and flowers , and with cuneiform ...
... edifice . Between the bulls and lions , forming the entrances in different parts of the palace , were invariably found a large collection of baked bricks , ela- borately painted with figures of animals , and flowers , and with cuneiform ...
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