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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... Periods - The Ivory Ornaments - Cartouches - Connec- tion between Assyria and Egypt - Historical Evidence of Period of Ninus - The Assyrian Dynasties - The Tombs at Nimroud - Antiquity of Nineveh . CHAPTER II . 123 Semitic Origin of the ...
... Periods - The Ivory Ornaments - Cartouches - Connec- tion between Assyria and Egypt - Historical Evidence of Period of Ninus - The Assyrian Dynasties - The Tombs at Nimroud - Antiquity of Nineveh . CHAPTER II . 123 Semitic Origin of the ...
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... period were these tombs made ? What antiquity did their presence assign to the buildings beneath them ? These are questions which I am yet unable to answer ; and which must be left undecided , until the origin and age of the contents of ...
... period were these tombs made ? What antiquity did their presence assign to the buildings beneath them ? These are questions which I am yet unable to answer ; and which must be left undecided , until the origin and age of the contents of ...
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... period . The figure , unlike the sculptures of Nimroud and Khorsa- bad , was in full , and not in relief ; and probably represented the king . Part of the beard was still preserved ; the hands appear to have rested on the knees , and a ...
... period . The figure , unlike the sculptures of Nimroud and Khorsa- bad , was in full , and not in relief ; and probably represented the king . Part of the beard was still preserved ; the hands appear to have rested on the knees , and a ...
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... period of heavy rain , it may have been for a ANA . MANDY - DRAW GJESTERHU MISTERINEVANY MILENA FUERZ Sitting figure in basalt , from Kalah Sherghat . short time exposed to view , and subsequently reburied . It stood on a spur of the ...
... period of heavy rain , it may have been for a ANA . MANDY - DRAW GJESTERHU MISTERINEVANY MILENA FUERZ Sitting figure in basalt , from Kalah Sherghat . short time exposed to view , and subsequently reburied . It stood on a spur of the ...
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... period than the Assyrian building , to which the inscribed bricks , and the fragments of sculptured stone belonged . The trenches open- ed by the workmen were deep ; but still they did not , I think , reach the platform of the older ...
... period than the Assyrian building , to which the inscribed bricks , and the fragments of sculptured stone belonged . The trenches open- ed by the workmen were deep ; but still they did not , I think , reach the platform of the older ...
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