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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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II.) ASSYRIAN ARCH. S3 vaulted drain, about five feet in width, was also discovered.The arch was turned with large kiln-burnt bricks, and restedupon side walls of the same material. The bricks beingsquare, and not expressly made for vaulting, a space was leftabove the centre of the arch, which was filled up by brickslaid longitudhially. Other examples were not wanting in the ruins to prove
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Vaulted Drain beneath South-east Palace. (Nimroud.) that the Assyrians were well acquainted at an early periodwith the true principle of the arch. The earth falling awayfrom the sides of the deep trench opened in the north-westpalace for the removal of the bull and lion during the formerexcavations, left uncovered the entrance to a vaulted drain or 54 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. passage built of sun-dried bricks. Beneath was a smallwater-course, inclosed by square slabs of alabaster.* Athird arch was found beneath the ruins of the south-eastedifice almost at the very foot of the mound. In the south-east corner of the quadrangle, formed by thelow mounds marking the wails once surrounding this quarter ^m^j^^-

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