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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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hed a lion led by a chain. Therewere no remains whatever of the superstructure which oncerose above the colossi, guarding this magnificent entrance. Although the upper part of the winged bulls was destroyed,fortunately the lower part, and, consequently, the inscriptions,had been more or less preserv^ed. To this fact we owe therecovery of some of the most precious records of the ancientworld. On the two great bulls forming the centre entrance, wasone continuous inscription, injured in parts, but still so farpreserved as to be legible almost throughout. It contained152 lines. On the four bulls of the fagade were two inscrip- * Grand entrance, S.E. side, Plan I. p. 4. These figures were thoseof winged priests, or deities, carrying the fir-cone and basket. + The frontispiece to this volume will convey to the reader some ideaof this magnificent facade when entire. This restoration, for which Iam mainly indebted to Mr. Ferguson, has been made with a careful re-gard to the exact proportions.
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44 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. tions, one inscription being carried over each pair, and thetwo being precisely of the same import. These two differentinscriptions complete the annals of six years of the reignof Sennacherib, and contain numerous particulars connectedwith the religion of the Assyrians, their gods, their temples,and the erection of their palaces. We gather from them that,in the third year of his reign, Sennacherib turned his armsagainst Merodach-Baladan, king of Babylon, whom he en-tirely defeated, capturing his cities and a large amount ofspoil. The fourth year appears to have been chiefly takenup with expeditions against the inhabitants of the mountain-ous regions to the north and east of Assyria. In the fifthhe crossed the Euphrates into Syria, the inhabitants of whichcountry are called by their familiar Biblical name of Hittites.He first took possession of Phoenicia, which was abandonedby its King Luliya (the Eululseus of the Greeks). He thenrestored to his throne Pa

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