A Popular Account of Discoveries at NinevehHarper & Brothers, 1875 - 360 oldal |
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v. oldal
... Assyrian antiquities , previous to the recent discoveries on the site of Nineveh . A few fragments scattered among ancient authors , and a list of kings of more than doubtful authenticity , is all that remains of a history of Assyria by ...
... Assyrian antiquities , previous to the recent discoveries on the site of Nineveh . A few fragments scattered among ancient authors , and a list of kings of more than doubtful authenticity , is all that remains of a history of Assyria by ...
vi. oldal
... Assyrian throne , and maintained the power of the empire . Yet of these kings nothing has been preserved but doubtful names . The Assyrians are not particularly alluded to in Holy Writ , until the period when their warlike expeditions ...
... Assyrian throne , and maintained the power of the empire . Yet of these kings nothing has been preserved but doubtful names . The Assyrians are not particularly alluded to in Holy Writ , until the period when their warlike expeditions ...
vii. oldal
... Assyrian history of modern authors . The narratives framed upon them convey useful lessons , and are , moreover ... Assyria have been familiar to us from childhood , and are connected with the earliest im pressions we derive from the ...
... Assyrian history of modern authors . The narratives framed upon them convey useful lessons , and are , moreover ... Assyria have been familiar to us from childhood , and are connected with the earliest im pressions we derive from the ...
xi. oldal
... Assyria and Babylonia ; but they were not classified , nor could it be determined to what exact epoch they belonged . Of Assyrian art noth- ing was known The architecture of Nineveh and Babylon was a matter of speculation , and the poet ...
... Assyria and Babylonia ; but they were not classified , nor could it be determined to what exact epoch they belonged . Of Assyrian art noth- ing was known The architecture of Nineveh and Babylon was a matter of speculation , and the poet ...
xii. oldal
... Assyrian king , and his title of king of Assyria . It is not improbable that these letters were originally formed by mere lines , for which the wedge was afterward substituted as an embellishment ; and that the character itself may once ...
... Assyrian king , and his title of king of Assyria . It is not improbable that these letters were originally formed by mere lines , for which the wedge was afterward substituted as an embellishment ; and that the character itself may once ...
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Abd-ur-rahman alabaster Amadiyah ancient appear Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey British Museum brought building carried castle cawass Chaldeans chamber chariot chief Christians cuneiform descended desert Diodorus Siculus discovered district dress earth edifice encampment entrance eunuchs Euphrates excavations feet formed fragments head Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses houses Ibrahim Agha inhabitants inscriptions 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 pashaw passed plain plunder priests principal probably raft Rassam ravine reached remains represented resembling river rocks rode round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Shammar Sheikh Nasr side Sinjar slabs Sofuk stones sun-dried bricks tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe uncovered valley village walls warriors winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis