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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... inscription records the virtues and probable reward of one of the most honest and amiable men that it has been my lot , in a life of some experience amongst men of various kinds , to meet . visited his monument on my return to ...
... inscription records the virtues and probable reward of one of the most honest and amiable men that it has been my lot , in a life of some experience amongst men of various kinds , to meet . visited his monument on my return to ...
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... inscriptions , which it contained , were still admirably preserved . When the excavations were resumed after ... inscription alone was carved upon the slabs . It will be perceived that a certain symmetry was , to some extent , observed ...
... inscriptions , which it contained , were still admirably preserved . When the excavations were resumed after ... inscription alone was carved upon the slabs . It will be perceived that a certain symmetry was , to some extent , observed ...
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... inscriptions , cut above those which invariably occur on the slabs of this palace . They contained the name of the king who founded Khorsabad , and they had evidently been placed there long after the lower inscriptions ( from which they ...
... inscriptions , cut above those which invariably occur on the slabs of this palace . They contained the name of the king who founded Khorsabad , and they had evidently been placed there long after the lower inscriptions ( from which they ...
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... inscriptions . Slab suc- ceeded to slab ; and when I had removed nearly twenty tombs , and cleared away the earth from a space of about fifty feet square , the ruins , which had been thus uncovered , presented a very singlar appearance ...
... inscriptions . Slab suc- ceeded to slab ; and when I had removed nearly twenty tombs , and cleared away the earth from a space of about fifty feet square , the ruins , which had been thus uncovered , presented a very singlar appearance ...
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... inscriptions accompanying the bas - reliefs , and they may hereafter serve to decide the ques- tion . On the greater number of slabs , however , the space be- tween the bas - reliefs was left without any inscription . The subjects ...
... inscriptions accompanying the bas - reliefs , and they may hereafter serve to decide the ques- tion . On the greater number of slabs , however , the space be- tween the bas - reliefs was left without any inscription . The subjects ...
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