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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
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inged bulls.t Anoutlet was discovered near its western end, opening into anarrow descending passage; an entrance, it would appear,into the palace from the river side. % Its length was ninety-six feet, its breadth not more than thirteen. The walls werepanelled with sculptured slabs about six feet high. § Thoseto the right, in descending, represented a procession of ser-vants carrying fruit, flowers, game, and supplies for a banquet,preceded by mace-bearers. The first servant bore an objectwhich I should identify with the pineapple, unless there wereevery reason to believe that the Assyrians were unacquaintedwith that fruit. The leaves sprouting from the top provedthat it was not the cone of a pine or fir tree. The attendants who followed carried clusters of ripe datesand flat baskets of osier-work, filled with pomegranates, • The flood nearly reached the mounds of Kouyunjik and NebbiYunus. + No. XLix. Plan I. p. 4. % No. LI. same Plan. § The figures were about 4^ feet in height.M 2
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Attendants carrying Pomegranates and Locusts. (Kouyunjik.) Chap. VII.) GROOMS LEADING HORSES. 165 apples, and bunches of grapes. They raised in one handboughs to drive away the flies. Then came men bearinghares, partridges, and dried locusts fastened on rods. Thelocust has ever been an article of food in the East, and isstill sold in the markets of many towns in Arabia. The locust-bearers were followed by a man with strings ofpomegranates; then came, two by two, attendants carryingon their shoulders low tables, such as are still used in theEast at feasts, loaded with baskets of cakes and fruits ofvarious kinds. The procession was finished by a long lineof servants bearing vases full of flowers. These figures were dressed in a short tunic, confined atthe waist by a shawl or girdle. They wore no head-gear,their hair falling in curls on their shoulders. On the opposite walls of the passage were fourteen horseswithout trappings, each led by a groom holding a haltertwisted round the lower

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