Nineveh and Persepolis- an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries (1850) (14785356793)

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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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ted the king. Part of the beardwas still preserved; the hands appear to have rested on the knees,and a long robe, edged with tassels, reached to the ankles. Thesubsequent excavations did not reveal anything of importance:there were many walls, but probably recent ones, about the ruins;and there were tombs and sarcophagi similar to those at Nimroud ;but the workmen, though they sunk their trenches very deep, didnot arrive at the platform of sun-dried brick on which the buildingmust originally have been placed. Mr. Layard therefore consideredthis ruin to have been only partially examined. It was not the first time that ^Ir. Layard had visited this 256 NINEVEH AXD PERSEPOLIS. (chap. vni. remarkable mound. Some years before, says lie, I bad passeda nigbt ou tbe same spot. We were four strangers (Mr. Ainsworth,Mr. Mitford, Mr. Rassam, and Mr. Layard) in the land, withoutguide or defence. Our horses were picketted about us; and,although surrounded by dangers of which we then thought little,

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Sitting Figtire, from Kalah SherguKt. and exposed to continual rain, we ate the frugal fare our own gunshad obtained for us, and slept in our cloaks undisturbed, roundthe embers of the small fire we had lighted. I did not think thenthat I should revisit the place. The principal ruin at KalahSherghat, like those of Nimroud, Koyunjik, and other Assyriansites, is a large square mound, sunnounted by a cone or pyramid.Long lines of smaller mounds, or ramparts, enclose a quadrangle,which may, perhaps, have been once occupied by houses or unim-portant buildings. At Kdah Sherghat, the high conical moundrises nearly iu the centre of the north side of the great platform. CHAP. VIII.) KALAH SHERGHAT. 257 Immediately below this cone, and forming a facing to the greatmound, is a wall of well hewn stones or slabs, carefully fittedtogether, and bevelled at the edges. The battlements, still existingon the top of this wall, are cut into gradines, resembling, in thisrespect, the battlements of the cast

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