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Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: S. Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
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d in Persia andBabylonia, as well as Assyria, have beencrowned with remarkable success and havegiven the means of ascertaining the earlyhistory and the religion of Assyria. The excava-tions conducted by Sir H, Layard and M. Bottain 1843, 1845, brought to light the sculpturedremains of immense palaces, not only at thetraditional site of Nineveh—namely, Kouyunjikand Nebbi- Yunus, opposite to Mosul, and atKhorsabad, about ten miles to the NNE.—butalso in a mound, 18 miles lower down the river,in the tongue of land between the Tigris andthe Great Zab, which still bears the name ofNimrud (see above.) These excavations havebeen pursued at various times since, especiallyin 1876. Many pieces of sculpture obtainedfrom the ruins may be seen in the BritishMuseum. Ninyas (NiyiW), son of Ninus and Semiramis.See Semiramis. Niobe (Niofiri). 1. Daughter of Tantalus bythe Pleiad Taygete or the Hyad Dione (Ov.Met. vi. 174 ; Hyg. Fab. 9). She was the sisterof Pelops, and the wife of Amphion, king of
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The Group of Niobe. (Zarmoni, Gal. di Firenzc, serie 4, vol. 1.) the ruins, then completely desolate, were calledMesjjila. Xenophon (An. iii. 4, 10) describesthe walls as of brick, built on a foundation ofXidos Koyxvhidrrts (apparently indusial lime-stone). He gives the circuit as six parasangs(about 20 miles), which probably included theruined villages in the suburbs. The site ismentioned by Arrian (Ind. 42), and Nineveh isclassed among old ruined cities by Pausanias(viii. 33, 2). A Roman colony, however, wasestablished on or near its site, and called Ninusor Niniva Claudiopolis (see Tac. Ann. xii. 13 ;Amm. Marc, xviii. 7; and coins of Trajan, Maxi-minus, Severus, and Gordian). Of all thegreat cities of the world none was thought tohave been more utterly lost than the capital ofAssyria. Tradition pointed out a few shapelessmounds opposite Mosul on the Upper Tigris, asall that remained of Nineveh ; and a few frag-ments of masonry were occasionally dug upthere and elsewhere in Assyria,

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