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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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s from the sameseries now in the British Museum, especially a warrior ona horse at full speed, are carved with the sharpness, preci-sion, and delicacy of a Greek gem. They are singulariy fineexamples of the perfec-tion to which the Assy- ,rians had attained inthe technical part of theart of sculpture. At Nimroud Mr.Hormuzd Rassams re-searches were chieflyconfined to the ruinsof the south-east palace.He found that thebuilding which I hadpartly explored had beenerected over the remainsof a more ancient edi-fice. Amongst the earlierruins, which were at aconsiderable depth be-neath the soil, were nochambers with sculp-tured walls, but bas-reliefs brought from thecentre palace, and seve- (ral detached objects of jgreat interest were ob-tained from them. Alarge tablet, or stele,similar in form to theone obtained from the temple in the north-west corner of themound,* was found in situ. It contained the effigy of a king(believed to be the grandson of Sardanapalus), and an inscrip-* Seep. 17S.
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INTRODUCTION. tion recording the an-nals of his reign. It isnow in the British Mu-seum. In another partof the building, sup-posed to be a templededicated to Nebo bya king, whose name,according to SirHenry Rawlinson, isto be read Iva-lush, orYama-Zala-Khus; or,according to M. Op-pert, Hou-likhous,and who reignedabout 800 B.C., werediscovered two de-tached statues of thegod, very rudelycarved. On themis an inscription,which, according toSir Henry Rawlin-son, states that theywere offered to Neboby an officer who go-verned certain placesin the Assyrian em-pire for the life of theking (Iva-lush), andof his wife Sammu-ramit, that the godmight lengthen the Statue of the God Nebo. kings life, prolong his days, increase his years, and give peace to his house

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