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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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bosses and carvings. Hewas preceded by his army, the variously accoutred spearmenand the bo-\vmen forming separate regiments or divisions.After crossing the river they attacked the enemys strong-holds, which they captured, putting to death or carrying intocaptivity their inhabitants. Unfortunately, the bas-reliefsdescribing the general result of the campaign, and probablythe taking of the principal city, had been destroyed. Thecaptives wore a kind of turban wrapped in several foldsround the head, and a short tunic confined at the waist by abroad belt. From the nature of the country it may be con-jectured that the sculptures represented the invasion andconquest of some part of Armenia, and the river may perhapsbe identified with the Euphrates, near whose head waters,as we learn from the inscriptions, Sennacherib waged one ofhis most important wars. * No. XLViii. Plan I. p. 4. + No. XLII. same Plan; 72 feet long, and 11 broad. § No. XIX. same Plan. X Nos. xxix. and xxxvill. same Plan.
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168 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. On the north side of the chamber were two doorways lead-ing into separate apartments. Each entrance was formedby two colossal bas-reliefs of the fish-god. These figures com-bine the human shape with that of the fish. The head of thefish forms a kind of mitre for the head of the man, whilstits scaly back and fan like tail fall behind, leaving the humanlimbs and feet exposed. They wear a fringed tunic, andbear the two sacred emblems, the basket and the cone. The god Dagon of the Philistines and of the inhabitantsof the Phoenician coast appears to have been worshippedunder nearly tlie same form. When the ark of the Lord- ■-,.^..,^ ^ —~—( j~7/~f J — was brought into the \(V C^ I ^( ^^fs great temple of the ^tS^ ft ^T/M..A ^ ^^lol -t Ashdod, and the statue fell a se-cond time, the headof Dagon and boththe palms of his handswere cut off upon thethreshold ; only the Assyrian Cylinder, with Dagon, or the Fish-god. fi^/iy part of DagOn was left to him. *

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