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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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ere discovered two circular metal vessels, nearly six feet indiameter, and about two feet deep, which I can only comparewith the brazen sea that stood in the temjjle of Solomon.§ Behind the cauldrons was a heap of curious and interestingobjects. In one place were piled, one above the other,bronze cups, bowls, and dishes of various sizes and shapes. * Zech. xiv. 20. + Tripod-stands, consisting of a circular ring raised upon feet, to holdjars and vases, are frequently represented in the bas-reliefs. (See par-ticularly Bottas large work, Plate 141.) The rings were of iron, boundin some places with copper, and the feet of iron cased in bronze. + Resembling those of the eunuch waniors in Plate 28 of the ist seriesof the Monuments of Nineveh. § 2 Chron. iv. 2. The dimensions, however, of tins vessel were fargreater. It is singular that, in some of the bas-reliefs, large metal caul-drons supported on brazen oxen, like those in Solomons temple, arerepresented. 6o NL\EVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap.
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Handles of Bronze Di?hes, from Nimroud.

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