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Identifier: ninevehbabylonna00laya (find matches)
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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including thetower, must have been full one hundred feet. Most of thebaked bricks found amongst the rubbish bore the nameof Sennacherib. A similar gateway, but without any re-mains of sculptured figures, and panelled with plain alabasterslabs, was subsequently discovered in the inner line of wallsforming the eastern side of the quadrangle, where the roadto Baashiekhah and Baazani leaves the ruins. At Nimroud discoveries of considerable importance weremade in the high conical mound at the north-west corner.Desirous of fully exploring that remarkable ruin, I had em-ployed nearly all the workmen in opening a tunnel into itswestern base. After penetrating for no less than eighty-fourfeet through a compact mass of rubbish, cornposed of loose * See Nineveh and its Remains, p. 104. + See Richs Residence in Kurdistan and Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 39.D 34 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. gravel, earth, burnt bricks, and fragments of stone, the ex-cavators came to a wall of solid stone masonry. The man-
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1. Vaulted chamber or tomb. 2. Excavated tunnel. 3. Basement stone wall. 4. Brick outside wall. 5. Mass of sun-dried bricks. 6. Artificial platform or mound. 7. Earth mixed with a few fragments ui bricks. 8. Earth mixed with fragments of brick, stone, and bones.Q. Line of deposit of broken brick. 10. The line of pebble deposit. 11. Cuttini;. 12. Loose gravel. 13. Natural conglomerate. 14. Temple B, of Plan. 15. Level of Nimrod mound. I-J DISCOVERY OF TOIVEK. 35 i:ier in which tliis structure had been buried is so curious,that ( have given a section of the different strata throughwhich the tunnel passed.* I have already observed that theedifice covered by this high mound was originally built uponthe natural rock—a mass of hard conglomerate rising about

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