M. Botta's letters on the discoveries at Nineveh [with notes by J. Mohl] tr. by C.T. [With] Illustrations of discoveries at Nineveh, Part 57 |
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... gypsum , such as is found near Mosul . Between these there is merely earth ; thus the whole exterior of the brick - work is covered with sculptured slabs , while the interior is filled with clayey soil . There is no appearance of its ...
... gypsum , such as is found near Mosul . Between these there is merely earth ; thus the whole exterior of the brick - work is covered with sculptured slabs , while the interior is filled with clayey soil . There is no appearance of its ...
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... gypsum , behind which is merely earth . These slabs , by my plan , are repre- sented as much too substantial , for in reality they are not more than a décimètre in thickness . I am now inclined to suspect that the interior parts of the ...
... gypsum , behind which is merely earth . These slabs , by my plan , are repre- sented as much too substantial , for in reality they are not more than a décimètre in thickness . I am now inclined to suspect that the interior parts of the ...
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... gypsum slab whereon they are sculptured . One of these personages is bare - headed , his temples bound with a red fillet , descending upon the shoulders ; his hair and beard are painted black , and very curiously plaited ; he has ear ...
... gypsum slab whereon they are sculptured . One of these personages is bare - headed , his temples bound with a red fillet , descending upon the shoulders ; his hair and beard are painted black , and very curiously plaited ; he has ear ...
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... gypsum , ten or twelve feet square and hardly one foot in thickness . On digging to their base , I have ascertained that they do not rest on the pavement or flag - stones , but simply upon the soil of the mound ; thus , in several ...
... gypsum , ten or twelve feet square and hardly one foot in thickness . On digging to their base , I have ascertained that they do not rest on the pavement or flag - stones , but simply upon the soil of the mound ; thus , in several ...
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... gypsum , in many places , is evidently converted into plaster and become friable ; to these indications , in short , another sign may be added . I have already mentioned the discovery , during the excavations , of a little ball of clay ...
... gypsum , in many places , is evidently converted into plaster and become friable ; to these indications , in short , another sign may be added . I have already mentioned the discovery , during the excavations , of a little ball of clay ...
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able to copy Academy of Inscriptions ancient appears archæological armed arrow ascertained Assyrian attired Baghdad ball band of inscription bas-relief representing beard bearing beneath bitumen BOTTA bricks brickwork bull calcined characters chariot clad colossal figures colour complete Constantinople cuneiform inscription decayed defaced describe discernible discovered DISCOVERIES AT NINEVEH disinterred displays doubtless earth east eastward entire excavations extremity flag-stone fortress fragments fringed GROTEFEND gypsum slabs head horses labours large chamber Layard's Nineveh legs likewise lower border Major RAWLINSON merely mètres MOHL monument mound Ninus observed opposite ornament painted red paved perceive Persepolis Persian Phrygian cap Plan Plate platform portal portion present preserved Prince ALBERT probably remains remark robe roof Royal Asiatic Society sculptures seen Semiramis sent similar specimen stone sword thick three feet three personages tiara tion traces Turning westward Wall xiv wall xx warriors western partition whereon winged figure workmen XXII XXXI
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Page i - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page xi - And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;§ the one of brick, the other of stone : they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform...
Page 12 - Anklets — one-fourth of the real size. uncommon than they formerly were. They are of course very heavy, and, knocking together as the wearer walks, make a ringing noise ; hence it is said in a song, " The ringing of thine anklets has deprived me of my reason.
Page i - So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days
Page vi - Dr. GROTEFEND, who professes to be rather the decipherer than the translator of the cuneiform inscriptions, and who engages merely to open the way to those whose attention has been much devoted to the study of the ancient languages of Persia, has however succeeded in translating some of the inscriptions on the ruins of Persepolis, and one from those of Pasargadoe.
Page xi - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water...
Page x - We learn from ancient authors that the usual method of preserving Assyrian and Babylonian records " was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed."* To this * Layard's "Nineveh,
Page vi - He observes that there are three varieties of those inscriptions distinguished from each other by the greater complication of the characters formed by the radical signs of a wedge (or arrow) and an angle. Each inscription is repeated in all the three species. The first or simplest species deciphered by Dr.
Page vi - Persia of the age of its history.* The cuneiform, or, as it has sometimes been called, the arrow-headed, character baffled the ingenuity of the decipherer, till Dr...
Page xii - ... were to unite themselves with the earth, and become a basis and sure foundation for that superstructure which was to be erected over it : they were to be so strong, in order to sustain with ease, those vast superstructures, and precious ornaments, whose own weight was to be not less than the weight of those other high and heavy buildings, which the King designed to be very ornamental and magnificent. They erected its entire body quite...