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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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Bronze Vessels taken from the Interior of a Cauldron. II.) BRONZE VESSELS. 6i The upper vessels liaving been most exposed to damp, tliemetal had been eaten away by rust, and was crumbling intofragments, or into a green powder. As they were clearedaway, more perfect specimens were taken out, until, near thepavement of the chamber, some were found almost entire.
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Bronze Dish, from Nimroud. Bronze Cup, 6i in. diameter, and if in. deep. Although a green crj^stalline deposit, arising from the de-composition of the metal, encrusted all the vessels, I coulddistinguish upon many of them traces of embossed andengraved ornaments. They have since been carefully andskilfully cleaned by the late Mr. Doubleday, of the BritishMuseum, and the very beautiful and elaborate designs uponthem brought to light* * Engraving.s of the most interesting of these vessels will be found inthe 2nd series of my Monuments of Nineveh. 62 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap The bronze objects thus discovered may be classed underfour heads—dishes with handles, plates, deep bowls, andcups. Some are plain, others have a simple rosette, scarab,or star in the centre, and many are most elaborately orna-mented with the figures of men and animals, and with ele-gant designs, either embossed or incised. The inside, andnot the outside, of these vessels is ornamented. The em-bossed figures have

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