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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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Captives in a Cart. (Kouyunjik.) as is still the custom. The camel saddle nearly resembledthat still used by the Arabs. The women rode on mules,and in carts drawn by these animals and sometimes by men.Asses and waggons bore cauldrons and sacks, probably con-taining corn. One bas-relief represented captives resting;two unharnessed mules stood eating their barley in front of
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Captives resting. (Kouynnjik.) the loaded cart; a woman seated on a stone held her child•ui)on her knees, whilst her husband drank water from acup. This chamber opened at one end into a small room,*23 feet by 13. On its walls were represented captives * No. XLiv. Plan I. p. 4. XIII.) NEW CHAMBERS AT KOUYUNJIK. 335 dressed in short tunics witli skins falling from their shoul-ders, boots laced up in front, and cross-bands round theirlegs; they had short, bushy hair and beards. In the outer chamber two doorways opposite the grandentrances into the great court, led into a parallel apartment,62 feet by 16 feet.* On its walls were represented the con-quest of the same people. There were long lines of prison-ers ; some in carts, others on foot. The fighting men, armedwith bows and quivers, were made to bear part of the spoil.In the costumes of the warriors and captives, and in theforms of the waggons and war-carts, these bas-reliefs bore astriking resemblance to the sculptures of the son o

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