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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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he north-west palace atNimroud, I have ventured to assign others collected by meto the same period. Nearly all the cylinders of this class are of any great importance, except fragments of inscriptions, and an inter-esting signet cylinder, were made in it. The ruins appear to be thoseof a temple dedicated to the god Nergal, and the Assyrian name of theplace seems to read TarbisL XIII.) ENGRAVED CYLINDERS. 345- cut in serpentine, and the designs upon them are generally-rude and coarsely engraved. The subjects are usually theking in his chariot*discharging his arrows against a lion orwild bull, warriors in battle, the monarch or priests in adora-tion before the emblem of the deity, the eagle-headed god,winged bulls and lions, and other mythic animals, accom-panied by the common Assyrian symbols, the sun, the moon,the seven stars, the winged globe, the sacred tree, and thewedge or cuneatic element. An unique specimen, apparentlyof this period, represents a man armed with a spear, standing
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Assyrian Cylinders, in Serpentine. in the midst of thirty-two human heads, probably the seal ofa successful warrior. Upon another are a turtle, a bird, anda human figure. The next in order of date are those of the time of Sargonand his successors. To this period belong the cylinder withthe fish-god, and that which I believe to be the signet ofSennacherib himself, described in a previous part of thiswork.* A very fine specimen, cut in agate, represents anAssyrian goddess, perhaps Astarte, or the Moon, with tenstars, and with a dog seated before her. In front of heris the moons crescent, and a priest in an attitude of adora-tion. A tree and a rampant goat, both common Assyriansymbols, complete the group. On other cylinders of thesame age we find the gods represented under various forms,the king and priests worshipping before them, altars and * Ante, p. 174. One cylinder bears his name. 346 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. the usual mythic emblems. On a small cylinder in whiteporcelain or qua

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