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Title: The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient Assyria -- History Babylonia -- History Parthia -- History Iran -- History
Publisher: New York : J. W. Lovell company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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they did.*-^ The make of the oars is also sin-gular. In the earliest sculptures they are short poles, ter-minating in a head, shaped like a small axe or hammer ;-^in the later, below this axe-like appendage, they have asort of curved blade, which is, however, not solid, butperforated, so as to form a mere framework, which seemsto require fiUing up. (PI. CXXXIII., Fig. 3.) Beside these round boats, which correspond closely with thekiifas in use upon the Tigris and Euphrates at the presentday,^^ the Assyrians employed for the passage of rivers, evenin very early times, a vessel of a more scientific construction.The early bas-reliefs exhibit to us, together with the knfa, asecond and much larger vessel, manned with a crew of sevenmen—a helmsman and six rowers, three upon either side *^—and capable of conveying across a broad stream two chariotsat a time,*^ or a chariot and two or three passengers. Thisvessel appears to have been made of planks. It was long, and Vol. I. Plate LXXXVII.
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