Nineveh and Babylon - a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1882) (14767020822)

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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851

Year: 1882 (1880s)

Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894

Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel

Publisher: London : J. Murray

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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XII.) DISCOVERY OF COFFINS. 321 gathered from the crumbHng remains; but no ornaments ofgold or silver were discovered at Niffer, though it appearsthat the Arabs frequently find them in similar coffins fromother ruins in southern Mesopotamia.

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Glazed Coffins from Babylonia, in the British Museum. From a curious relic in terracotta, discovered and sent tothis country by Mr. Loftus, we learnthe manner in which the dead wereplaced in these singular coffins. Itrepresents the corpse of a man in oneof the sarcophagi I have described.The body and extremities are swathedin linen, the bands of which are veryclearly shown in the clay figure. Theywere probably smeared over with bitu-men to preserve them; the head andhands were left uncovered. The manrepresented in the model wears a kindof flat turban, and his hair falls in ring-lets on his shoulders. His beard is ela-borately curled, like that of the ancient Terracotta Model of a Body Assyrians. In each hand he holds a ^ ^°^- kind of mace wltla a circular top, probably some religious Y

Ниневия и Вавилон рассказ о второй экспедиции в Ассирию в 1849, 1850 и 1851, 1882 годах. книжные иллюстрации описание и путешествия древние цивилизации Средний Восток путешествие и описание изображения из интернет-архива

1882

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