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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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:On one side of the stream was the king in his chariot, sur-rounded by his bodyguard and followed by his led horses.On the opposite bank the Assyrian army laid siege to a de- * No. XIX. Plan I. p. 4. + It is to be observed that neither of these entrances are exactly inthe middle of the sides of the hall. Those opposite to each other, how-ever, correspond. X From the size of the river, it may be conjectured that it representsthe Euphrates in Babylonia. No fragment of inscription remains bywhich this conquered country might be identified. X. DISCOVERIES DURING THE SUMMER. 239 tached fort, forming an outwork to a city surrounded by highbattlemented walls, and defended by lofty towers rising oneabove the other. Five square gateways opened upon a small
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Arabs and Nestorians moving a Slab at Kouyunjik. Stream or canal. The city walls seemed deserted by the in-habitants, but the fort was defended by archers. Drawn upbefore it were warriors variously armed, and cavalry dis-charging their arrows without dismounting from their horses.A kneeling Assyrian, protecting himself by a broad wickershield, was forcing the stones from the lower part of the for-tifications with an instrument probably of iron. Assyrian warriors were bringing human heads to the regis-trars, to show tlie numbers of the slain. The spoil, consist- 24.0 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. ing of furniture, arms, and vessels of elegant form, was beingregistered by the scribes, to be divided amongst the victorioustroops. The captive women with their children were seenriding in carts drawn by oxen. The dress of the male pri-soners consisted of a short tunic encircled at the waist by abroad belt, that of the women of an inner shirt and an outerfringed robe falling to the ankles. The

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