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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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Siege of a City. defended by an armed man, two others were occupied by females.Three warriors, probably escaping from the enemy, were swimmingacross the stream; two of them, on inflated skins, in the modepractised now, as in the days of Xenophon, by the x\rabs inhabitingthe banks of the rivers of Mesopotamia and Assyria. The third,pierced by arrows discharged from the bows of two high-capped
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Lion Hunt. warriors kneeling on the shore, was struggling without the supportof a skin against the current. Three rudely designed trees com-pleted the back ground. On another slab was the Siege of a Citywith the battering ram and moveable tower. On the third and CHAP, vm.) NDmOUD. 225 fourth slabs were two Hunting Scenes, the one of a Lion, and theother of a Bull. Mr. Layard considers the lion hunt, from theknowledge of art disjilayed iu the treatment and composition, thecorrect and effective delineation of the men and the animals, thespirit of the grouping and its extraordinary preservation, is pro-bably the finest specimen of Assyrian art in existence. Shortlyafter this, arrived the Firman, for which Mr. Layard had long

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