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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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ome of these (houses) with stones of tencubits, and wainscoted the walls with other stones thatwere sawed, and were of great value, such as were dugout of the bowels of the earth, for ornaments of temples,&c. The arrangement of the curious workmanship of thesestones was in three rows ; but the fourth was pre-eminentfor the beauty of its sculpture, for on it were representedtrees, and all sorts of plants, with the shadows caused bytheir branches and the leaves that hung down from them.These trees and plants covered the stone that was beneaththem, and their leaves were wrought so wonderfully thin andsubtile, that they appeared almost in motion ; but the restof the wall, up to the roof, was plastered over, and, as it were,wrought over with various colours and pictures.t To complete the analogy between the two edifices, it wouldappear that Solomon was seven years building his temple, * See woodcut in the following page. \ Josephus, b. viii. c. 2. Fergussons Palaces of Nineveh, p. 229.
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Chap. XIV.) PALACE AT KOUYUNJIK. 381 and Sennacherib about the same time in erecting his greatpalace at Kouyunjik.* The ceiHng, roof, and beams of the Jewish temple wereof cedar wood. The discoveries in the ruins at Nimroudshow that the same precious wood was used in the Assyrianedifices; and the king of Nineveh, as we learn from the in-scriptions, sent men, precisely as Solomon had done, to cutit in Mount Lebanon. Fir was also employed in tlie Jewishbuildings, and probably in those of Assyria.f In order to understand the proposed restoration of thepalace at Kouyunjik from the existing remains, the readermust refer to the plan of the excavated ruins. ; It will be per-ceived that the building does not face the cardinal points ofthe compass. I will however assume, for convenience sake,that it stands due north and south. To the west, therefore,it immediately overlooked the Tigris; and on that side roseone of its principal facades. The edifice must have stood onthe very edge of the platfo

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