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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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Colossal Figures at au Entrance. (Kouyunjik.) * No. LX. Plan I. + In No. XXXVIIr. same Plan. % Entrance b. No. LX. S See page 166. 2s8 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. posited, for it was in this passage that were discovered thedetached seals described in a former chapter. This incHned way probably led to the upper chambers ofthe palace, or to the galleries which may have been carriedround the principal chambers and halls. I have only to describe two more rooms discovered in thispart of the ruins during the summer. * They opened intothe chamber parallel with that containing the sculpturedrecords of the son of Esarhaddon. The entrances to bothwere formed by two pairs of colossal figures in bold relief, each
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s:.~- Cases containing Sculptures ready for Embarkation. pair consisting of a man wearing the homed cap surmountedby a ileur-de-lis, and a lion-headed and eagle-footed humanfigure raising a dagger in one hand, and holding a macein the other. The bas-reliefs on the walls recorded a cam-paign against a nation dwelling amidst a wooded and moun-tainous country, and in strongly fortified cities, which theAssyrians took by assault, with battering rams and scalingladders, carrying away a vast amount of spoil and captives, * No. XX.XI., 2O by 14 feet, and Xo. .xx.vii., 22 by 20 feet. X.) EMBARKING THE SCULPTURES. 2,-9 The prisoners had short bushy hair and beards, and worean inner garment reaching to the knee, an outer cloak ofskins or fur, and gaiters laced in front. The robes of thewomen were short; their hair hung low down their backs,and was then gathered up into one large curl.* I was engaged until the middle of October in moving andpacking bas-reliefs from Kouyunjik ; a task demanding m

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  • booksubject:Nineveh__Extinct_city_
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