A Popular Account of Discoveries at NinevehHarper & Brothers, 1875 - 360 oldal |
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iv. oldal
Austen Henry Layard. to believe that all the ruins explored represent the site of ancient Nineveh , and while still assigning the later monuments to the kings mentioned in Scripture , Shalma- nezer , Sennacherib , and Essarhadon , I am ...
Austen Henry Layard. to believe that all the ruins explored represent the site of ancient Nineveh , and while still assigning the later monuments to the kings mentioned in Scripture , Shalma- nezer , Sennacherib , and Essarhadon , I am ...
v. oldal
... ancient authors , and a list of kings of more than doubtful authenticity , is all that remains of a history of Assyria by Ctesias ; while of that attributed to Herodotus not a trace has been pre- served . Of later writers who have ...
... ancient authors , and a list of kings of more than doubtful authenticity , is all that remains of a history of Assyria by Ctesias ; while of that attributed to Herodotus not a trace has been pre- served . Of later writers who have ...
ix. oldal
... ancient Assyria was Mr. Rich , many years the political resident of the East India Company at Baghdad , a man whom enterprise , industry , extensive and varied learning , and rare influence over the inhabi- tants of the country ...
... ancient Assyria was Mr. Rich , many years the political resident of the East India Company at Baghdad , a man whom enterprise , industry , extensive and varied learning , and rare influence over the inhabi- tants of the country ...
x. oldal
... ancient passages , one within the other , with several doors or apertures . He next examined the largest mound of the group , called Kouyunjik by the Turks , and Armousheeah by the Arabs ; the circumference of which he ascertained to be ...
... ancient passages , one within the other , with several doors or apertures . He next examined the largest mound of the group , called Kouyunjik by the Turks , and Armousheeah by the Arabs ; the circumference of which he ascertained to be ...
xi. oldal
... ancient mode of writing may not be unacceptable to the reader . The epithets of cunei- form , cuneatic , arrow - headed , and wedge - shaped - tête - à · clou in French , and keilförmig in German - have been assigned to it according as ...
... ancient mode of writing may not be unacceptable to the reader . The epithets of cunei- form , cuneatic , arrow - headed , and wedge - shaped - tête - à · clou in French , and keilförmig in German - have been assigned to it according as ...
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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