A Popular Account of Discoveries at NinevehHarper & Brothers, 1854 - 360 oldal |
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14. oldal
... entrance to a miserable hovel . Through a crevice in the wall , I saw an Arab family crouching round a heap of half - extinguished embers . The dress of the man , the ample cloak and white turban , showed that he belonged to one of the ...
... entrance to a miserable hovel . Through a crevice in the wall , I saw an Arab family crouching round a heap of half - extinguished embers . The dress of the man , the ample cloak and white turban , showed that he belonged to one of the ...
16. oldal
... entrance . I now dug down the face of one of the stones , and an inscription in the cuneiform character was soon exposed to view . Similar inscriptions occupied the centre of all the slabs , which were in the best preservation ; but ...
... entrance . I now dug down the face of one of the stones , and an inscription in the cuneiform character was soon exposed to view . Similar inscriptions occupied the centre of all the slabs , which were in the best preservation ; but ...
21. oldal
... entrance or door- way . Being anxious to make as much progress as possible , I increased my workmen to thirty , and distributed them in † Entrance d , same plan . * Wall e , plan 1 . three parties . By opening long trenches at right ...
... entrance or door- way . Being anxious to make as much progress as possible , I increased my workmen to thirty , and distributed them in † Entrance d , same plan . * Wall e , plan 1 . three parties . By opening long trenches at right ...
25. oldal
... entrance , or doorway , had now been completely cleared , and the backs of several inscribed slabs had been uncovered . * A corner - stone , which had evidently been brought from another building , was richly orna- mented with flowers ...
... entrance , or doorway , had now been completely cleared , and the backs of several inscribed slabs had been uncovered . * A corner - stone , which had evidently been brought from another building , was richly orna- mented with flowers ...
32. oldal
... entrance into a chamber , and a bas- relief nine feet in height , representing a human figure raising the right hand , and carrying a branch with three flowers re- sembling the рорру , in the left , were also uncovered . But these ...
... entrance into a chamber , and a bas- relief nine feet in height , representing a human figure raising the right hand , and carrying a branch with three flowers re- sembling the рорру , in the left , were also uncovered . But these ...
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Abd-ur-rahman alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appear Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey British Museum brought building carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christians descended desert Diodorus Siculus discovered discovery distance earth edifice encampment entrance eunuchs Euphrates excavations feet formed fragments head Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants inscriptions Ismail Pasha Jebours journey Kalah Kalah Sherghat Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lions Melek Mesopotamia monuments Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans N. W. Palace Nestorian night Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Pasha plain plunder priests principal probably raft Rassam ravine reached remains resembling river rocks rode round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr side Sinjar slabs Sofuk stones sun-dried bricks tents Tigris Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe valley village walls warriors whilst winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis