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Identifier: harpersnew0104various (find matches)
Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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except that the nameof the paving-stone was different. Thenames of the two kinds of stone talliedwith those referred to in one of Nebu-chadnezzars inscriptions that had beenknown to scholars for many years, sothat there was no doubt of the actualdiscovery of the famous procession streetof Babylon. With the remains of thepaving, hundreds of fragments of glazedcolored tiles were found that had evident-ly formed the decorations of the walls,and it was not long before it became clearthat these tiles constituted parts of figuresof lions enclosed in borders of rosettes.Some of the lions faced the left, othersthe right, and the conclusion was there-fore justified that the decorations hadbeen placed on both sides of the street.In the course of some months enoughfragments were picked up to reconstructa complete figure of one of the lions, andwe can now estimate for ourselves theimpression that must have been producedby the portrayal on the walls of Aibur-shabu of these majestic figures, about
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THE PALACE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 813 three feet high and six feet long, thatacted as a kind of escort to Marduk whenhe was carried along this magnificentstreet. The discovery of this wall decora-tion is important also from an archae-ological point of view, for it finally settlesthe question as to the source whence thePersians, who had hitherto been regardedas masters of the art of glazed tiles,obtained their knowledge. The workman-ship of the lions of Babylon is pre-cisely the same as that found on thefriezes of the palace of Susa, unearthedsome years ago by M.Dieulafoy, and whichwere so well describedby the talented wife ofthe distinguished ex-plorer in an articlethat appeared in Har-per s Magazine forJune, 1887. The remarkable regu-larity of the limbs andthe features of the lionson all the fragmentsmakes it probable thatthe design was placedon a clay mass bymeans of a mould, andafter the colors wereput on, the clay wascut up into tiles ofequal size, which, uponbeing baked at a hightemp

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