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Title: Nineveh and Persepolis: an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885
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Publisher: London : A. Hall, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ine ; the besiegersendeavour to quench the flame by pouring water upon it fromtwo spouts in the moveable tower. Two figures in full armourare undermining the walls with instmments like blunt speais;while two others appear to have found a secret passage into thecastle. Three of the besieged are falling from the walls, andupon one of the towers are two women, tearing their hair ande.Ktending their hands in the act of asking meicy. The enemyare already mounting to the assault, and scaling ladders have beenplaced against the walls. The king, discharging an arrow andprotected by a shield held by a warrior in complete armour, stands 232 NIXEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS. (chap. vin. on one side of the castle; he is attended by two eunuchs, oneliolding the umbrella, the other his quiver and mace. Behind themis a warrior leading away captive three women and a child, anddriving three bullocks, a part of the spoil. The women aretearing their hair. As Mr. Layard proceeded with his excavations, many new and
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Passage of Kiver. interesting discoveries were made; among others, two slabs,representing the passage of a river by boats, -which contain warchariots, with the king and his attendants standing in them; bytheir side are men swimming and supported upon inflated skins,and in the water are represented fisli. This mode of swimmingis still practised on the rivers of Mesopotamia, and the boats,Mr. Layard states, which are still used by the inhabitants of Mosul,are, if possible, ruder than those repiesented on the sculptures,and aie managed just in the same waj, by means of an oar■with a broad flat end, which is passed through a rope hunground a thick wooden pin at the stem, which serves to guide andto impel it. In one of the chambers there was a large quantity of iron amongthe rubbish, and Mr. Layard soon recognised in it scales of armoursimilar to that on some of the figures; each scale was separate,from two or three inches long, rounded at one end and square atthe other, with a raised or

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