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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Bas-relief from Kouyunjik, representing fortified City, a River with a Boat andRaft, and a Canal. slabs only retaining any traces of sculpture. One of themrepresented Assyrian warriors leading captives, wearing ahead-dress of high feathers, fonning a kind of tiara like thatof an Indian chief, and a robe confined at the waist by anornamented girdle. Some of them carried an object re-sembling a torch. * No. XXII. Plan I. p. 4.
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mvi ■• -^^rj Chap. III.) BAS-RELIEFS DESCRIBED. 79 On a second slab, preserved in this chamber, was repre-sented a double-walled city with arched gateways, and in-clined approaches leading to them from the outer walls.Within were warriors with horses ; outside the fortificationswas a narrow stream or canal, planted on both sides withtrees, and flowing into a broad river, on which were largeboats, holding several persons, and a raft of skins, bearing aman fishing, and two others seated before a pot or cauldron.Along the banks, and apparently washed by the stream, wasa wall \vith equidistant towers and battlements. On anotherpart of the same river were men ferrying horses across theriver in boats, whilst others were swimming over on inflatedskins. The water swarmed with fish and crabs. Gardensand orchards, with various kinds of trees, appeared to bewatered by canals similar to those which once spread ferti-lity over the plains of Babylonia, and of which the choked-up beds still rema

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