Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Band 1J. Murray, 1854 - 894 Seiten |
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... characters in an epoch before sober history commenced , have been invested with superhuman features , or have been mixed up with fables . Yet above thirty generations elapsed between Ninus and Sardanapalus , during which a whole line of ...
... characters in an epoch before sober history commenced , have been invested with superhuman features , or have been mixed up with fables . Yet above thirty generations elapsed between Ninus and Sardanapalus , during which a whole line of ...
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... character . The ruins which might be pre- sumed to occupy the site of the Assyrian capital were even less known , and less visited than those in Babylonia . Several travellers had noticed the great mounds of earth opposite the modern ...
... character . The ruins which might be pre- sumed to occupy the site of the Assyrian capital were even less known , and less visited than those in Babylonia . Several travellers had noticed the great mounds of earth opposite the modern ...
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... character as position , eminently qualified for such a task . The remains near Hillah , being in the immediate vicinity of Baghdad , first at- tracted his attention ; and he commenced his labours by carefully examining the nature and ...
... character as position , eminently qualified for such a task . The remains near Hillah , being in the immediate vicinity of Baghdad , first at- tracted his attention ; and he commenced his labours by carefully examining the nature and ...
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... characters , and proceeded with his journey . The fragments collected by Mr. Rich were subse- quently placed in the British Museum , and formed the principal , and indeed almost only , collection of Assyrian antiquities in Europe . A ...
... characters , and proceeded with his journey . The fragments collected by Mr. Rich were subse- quently placed in the British Museum , and formed the principal , and indeed almost only , collection of Assyrian antiquities in Europe . A ...
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... character . Did not these remains mark the nature of the ruin , it might have been confounded with a natural emi- nence . A long line of consecutive narrow mounds , still retaining the appearance of walls or ramparts , stretched from ...
... character . Did not these remains mark the nature of the ruin , it might have been confounded with a natural emi- nence . A long line of consecutive narrow mounds , still retaining the appearance of walls or ramparts , stretched from ...
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey bricks brought building carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures desert discovered district encampment entrance eunuch excavations face feet fir-cone followed formed fragments hand head Hormuzd Rassam horned cap horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants Ismail Pasha journey Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lions lower Melek ment Mesopotamia Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh north-west palace ornaments party Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests ravine reached remains returned river rocks rode round ruins sacred salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Syria Tatar tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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Seite 67 - This is not the work of men's hands," exclaimed he, " but of those infidel giants of whom the prophet, peace be with him ! has said that they •were higher than the tallest date tree; this is one of the idols which Noah, peace be with him ! cursed before the flood.
Seite 262 - And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Seite 71 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Seite 299 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Seite 12 - However, it was evident that the monument appertained to a very ancient and very civilised people, and it was natural from its position to refer it to the inhabitants of Nineveh, a city which, although it could not have occupied a site so distant from the Tigris, must have been in the vicinity of the place. M. Botta had discovered an Assyrian edifice, the first, probably, which had been exposed to the view of man since the fall of the Assyrian Empire.
Seite 71 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Seite iii - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Seite 4 - Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah ; the same is a great city.
Seite 68 - As he requested me to discontinue my operations until the sensation in the town had somewhat subsided, I returned to Nimroud and dismissed the workmen, retaining only two men to dig leisurely along the walls without giving cause for further interference. I ascertained by the end of March the existence of a second pair of winged human-headed lions, differing from those previously discovered in form, the human shape being continued to the waist, and being furnished with human arms, as well as with...