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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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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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waited, giving him the fullest powers to make whatever excavationshe might think fit. I was sleeping. says he, in the tent ofSheikh Abd-ur-rahman, who had invited me to hunt gazelles withhim before dawn on the following morning, when an Arab awokeme. He was the bearer of letters from Mosul, and I read, bythe light of a small camel-dung fire, the document which securedto the British nation the records of Nineveh, and a collection ofthe earliest monuments of Assyrian art. IVIr. Layard was now enabled to carry on his works with greaterspirit and effect, and a chamber was laid open, through its wholeextent, 154 feet in length by 33 in breadth, and containing a largenumber of slabs. At one end was a slab 14 feet in length, onwhich were four figures. Two kings stood facing one another, butseparated by a symbolical tree, above which was the emblem ofthe Supreme Deity, a human figure, with the wings and tail ofa bird, enclosed in a circle, and holding a ring in one hand,resembling the image s

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