Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldĉan 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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... Monumental Records - Bricks and Tiles - Progress in Deciphering - Assyrian Monuments of various Periods - The Ivory Ornaments - Cartouches - Connec- tion between Assyria and Egypt - Historical Evidence of Period of Ninus - The Assyrian ...
... Monumental Records - Bricks and Tiles - Progress in Deciphering - Assyrian Monuments of various Periods - The Ivory Ornaments - Cartouches - Connec- tion between Assyria and Egypt - Historical Evidence of Period of Ninus - The Assyrian ...
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... * Engravings from drawings of the bas - reliefs discovered at Kouyunjik will be included in my work on the monuments of Nineveh . Beyond this entrance the walls of the great hall , 102 [ CHAP . XIV NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS .
... * Engravings from drawings of the bas - reliefs discovered at Kouyunjik will be included in my work on the monuments of Nineveh . Beyond this entrance the walls of the great hall , 102 [ CHAP . XIV NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS .
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... monuments . This interesting relic is nearly perfect , one corner alone having been injured . In a mound so vast as that of Kouyunjik , it is probable that many remains of the highest interest still exist . As it has been seen , the ...
... monuments . This interesting relic is nearly perfect , one corner alone having been injured . In a mound so vast as that of Kouyunjik , it is probable that many remains of the highest interest still exist . As it has been seen , the ...
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... monuments of Nimroud . * * In the winter of this year Mr. Ross visited the rock tablets of Bavian , which want of time had , to my great regret , prevented me examining . The account he has obligingly sent me of the result of his ...
... monuments of Nimroud . * * In the winter of this year Mr. Ross visited the rock tablets of Bavian , which want of time had , to my great regret , prevented me examining . The account he has obligingly sent me of the result of his ...
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... monuments afford , we might almost have doubted that the great Nineveh ever existed , so completely " has she become a desolation and a waste . " Before my departure I was desirous of giving a last enter- tainment to my workmen , and to ...
... monuments afford , we might almost have doubted that the great Nineveh ever existed , so completely " has she become a desolation and a waste . " Before my departure I was desirous of giving a last enter- tainment to my workmen , and to ...
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