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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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eath the foundations of thetower, though, of course, it is not impossible that such maybe the case. As the r.iin is 140 feet high, the building could scarcelyhave been much less than 200, whilst the immense mass ofrubbish surrounding and covering the base shows that it * The walls, as well as the vault, were of sun-dried bricki. It iscurious that between one row of bricks was a layer of reeds, as in tht-Babylonian ruins ; the only instance of this mode of construction yet metwith in Assyria. I.) TOWER IN BAS-RELIEF, 39 might have been considerably higher. It is probable thatits original shape was that of a square tower, formed bya series of stages or platforms, on the top of which mayhave been placed an altar with the sacred fire. A bas-reliefwith the representation of a tower of this precise shape, withrecesses in the basement, and built upon an artificial mound,was subsequently discovered at Kouyunjik. It is not a littlecurious that a door, with a kind of portcullis, is seen in this
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Tower on a Mound sculpture, on the level of the top of the basement wall,exactly where the entrance to the vaulted gallery, which Ihave conjectured to be the sepulchral chamber, may besupposed to have been placed. A river washes the foot ofthe mound, as the Tigris formerly washed that of Nimroud.Can this bas-relief represent the very tower the remains ofwhich I have been describing, and with which it appears tocorrespond so nearly in form % 40 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. II. CHAPTER II. Discovery of the grand entrance to Sennacherib^s palace—The inscriptionscontaining the anttals of his reign—Acconni of his war with Hezekiah—Sculptures representing siege of Lachish—feunsh captives—Discovery ofarched vault at Nimroud—Of painted bricks—Attack of the Tai onvillage of Nimroud—Discovery of chamber containing bronze bowls,glass, and other relics. During the month of December, several discoveries of thegreatest interest and importance were made, both at Kou-yunjik and Nimroud

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