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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d jaws, amaed with huge teeth. Its bodywas covered with feathers, its fore-feet were those of a lion,its hind legs ended in the talons of an eagle, and it hadspreading wings and the tail of a bird. Behind this strangeimage was a winged man,whose dress consisted of anupper garment with a skirtof skin or fur, an underrobe fringed with tassels, andthe sacred horned hat. Along sword was suspendedfrom his shoulders by anembossed belt; sandals, arm-lets, and bracelets, completedhis attire, f He hurledan object resembling thethunderbolt of the GreekJove against the monster,who turned furiously towardshim. This group appears torepresent the bad spiritdriven out by a good deity. On the slabs at right an-gles to these sculptures,forming the outer part of theentrance, were two colossalhuman figures, without wings,wearing garlands on theirheads, and bearing branchesending in three flowers.Within the temple, at rightangles to the entrance, weresculptured fish-gods, some-what differing in form from
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Fish-God at Entrance to small Temple. (Nimroud.) those at Kouyunjik. The * Entrance 2, B, Plan II. p. 34. + Plate 5, of 2nd series of the Monuments of Nineveh. N 178 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. fishs head formed part of the three-homed cap usuallyworn by the winged figures. The tail only reached a littlebelow the waist of the man, who was dressed in a tunicand long furred robe.* At this entrance to the temple stood a tablet with thefigure of Sardanapalus, the founder of the north-west palace,in high relief, carved out of a solid block of limestone, whichhad been cut into the shape of an arched frame, resemblingthe rock tablets of Bavian and the Nahr-el-Kelb. The monarch wore hissacrificial robes, andcarried the sacredmace in his left hand.Round his neck werehung the four sacredsymbols, the crescent,the star or sun, thetrident, and the cross.His waist was encir-cled by the knottedcord, and in his gir-dle were three dag-gers. Above his headwere other mythicsymbols of Assyrianworship, th

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