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Identifier: ninevehbabylonna00laya (find matches)
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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A Captive. (Kouyunjik.) * Nos. VII. and viii. Plan I. p. 4. + Plate 29, of 2iid series of Monuments of Nineveh. X Nineveh and its Remains, chap. xiii. III.) BAS-RELIEFS DESCRIBED. 77 In the southern part of the palace a chamber had beenopened, in which several bas-reliefs of considerable interesthad been discovered.- Its principal entrance, facing thewest, was formed by a pair of colossal human-headed lions,carved in coarse limestone, so much injured that even theinscriptions on the lower part of them were nearly illegible.Unfortunately the bas-reliefs were equally mutilated, four
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Bas-relief from Kouyunjik, representing fortified City, a River with a Boat andRaft, and a Canal. slabs only retaining any traces of sculpture. One of themrepresented Assyrian warriors leading captives, wearing ahead-dress of high feathers, fonning a kind of tiara like thatof an Indian chief, and a robe confined at the waist by anornamented girdle. Some of them carried an object re-sembling a torch. * No. XXII. Plan I. p. 4.

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Nineveh__Extinct_city_
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