Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 1J. Murray, 1849 |
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... rode alone ; our arms were our only protection ; a valise behind our saddles was our wardrobe , and we tended our own horses , except when relieved from the duty by the hospitable inhabitants of a Turcoman village or an Arab tent . Thus ...
... rode alone ; our arms were our only protection ; a valise behind our saddles was our wardrobe , and we tended our own horses , except when relieved from the duty by the hospitable inhabitants of a Turcoman village or an Arab tent . Thus ...
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... rode also into the desert , and explored the mound of Kalah Sherghat , a vast ruin on the Tigris , about fifty miles below its junction with the Zab . As we journeyed thither we rested for the night at the small Arab village of Hammum ...
... rode also into the desert , and explored the mound of Kalah Sherghat , a vast ruin on the Tigris , about fifty miles below its junction with the Zab . As we journeyed thither we rested for the night at the small Arab village of Hammum ...
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... rode out together ; but he only pointed out the site of an old quarry , with a few rudely - hewn stones . Such disappointments were daily occurring ; and I wearied myself in scouring the country to see remains which had been most ...
... rode out together ; but he only pointed out the site of an old quarry , with a few rudely - hewn stones . Such disappointments were daily occurring ; and I wearied myself in scouring the country to see remains which had been most ...
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... excavations by threatening those who were inclined to work for me . On the following morning , therefore , I rode to the town , and waited upon his Excellency . He pretended to be taken CHAP . II . ] 43 INTERRUPTIONS .
... excavations by threatening those who were inclined to work for me . On the following morning , therefore , I rode to the town , and waited upon his Excellency . He pretended to be taken CHAP . II . ] 43 INTERRUPTIONS .
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... rode back to the village , and acquainted Daoud Agha with the result of my visit . About midnight , however , he returned to me , and declared that a horseman had just brought him more stringent orders than any he had yet re- ceived ...
... rode back to the village , and acquainted Daoud Agha with the result of my visit . About midnight , however , he returned to me , and declared that a horseman had just brought him more stringent orders than any he had yet re- ceived ...
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst appeared Arabs arrow Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Botta bricks brought building carpets carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures compartments desert discovered district encampment entrance eunuch excavations face feet fir-cone followed formed fragments hand head Hormuzd Rassam horned cap horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants Ismail Pasha journey Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lion lower Melek ment Mesopotamia Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans Nestorian Nestorian Chaldæans Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh ornaments palace party Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests Rassam ravine reached remains returned river rocks rode round rubbish ruins salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Tatar tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trenches tribe uncovered Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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Page 71 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 71 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 261 - And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Page 30 - Wallah ! your books are right, and the Franks know that which is hid from the true believer. Here is the gold, sure enough, and please God, we shall find it all in a few days. Only don't say any thing about it to those Arabs, for they are asses and cannot hold their tongues. The matter will come to the ears of the Pasha.
Page 12 - However, it was evident that the monument appertained to a very ancient and very civilised people, and it was natural from its position to refer it to the inhabitants of Nineveh, a city which, although it could not have occupied a site so distant from the Tigris, must have been in the vicinity of the place. M. Botta had discovered an Assyrian edifice, the first, probably, which had been exposed to the view of man since the fall of the Assyrian Empire.
Page 68 - The news soon got to the ears of the cadi, who, anxious for a fresh opportunity to annoy me, called the mufti and the ulema together to consult upon this unexpected occurrence. Their deliberations ended in a procession to the governor, and a formal protest on the part of the Mussulmans of the town against proceedings so directly contrary to the laws of the Koran. The cadi had no distinct idea whether the bones of the mighty hunter had been uncovered or only his image; nor did Ismail Pasha very clearly...
Page iii - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 298 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Page 67 - In this opinion, the result of a careful examination, all the bystanders concurred. I now ordered a trench to be dug due south from the head, in the expectation of finding a corresponding figure, and before night-fall reached the object of my search about twelve feet distant. Engaging two or three men to sleep near the sculptures, I returned to the village, and celebrated the day's discovery by a slaughter of sheep, of which all the Arabs near partook. As some wandering musicians chanced to be at...
Page 68 - As he requested me to discontinue my operations until the sensation in the town had somewhat subsided, I returned to Nimroud and dismissed the workmen, retaining only two men to dig leisurely along the walls without giving cause for further interference. I ascertained by the end of March the existence of a second pair of winged human-headed lions, differing from those previously discovered in form, the human shape being continued to the waist, and being furnished with human arms, as well as with...