Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 288
ng two figures withmonkeys—probably, as the same subjects appear on the Obeliskfrom the Central Palace, the tribute of some nation : the dress ofthese figures differs considerably from that which appears to havebeen the usual Assyrian type. The ninth and tenth, two stand-ing figures, which it has… … Nisroch. for Mr. Layards supposition that the word Nisroch means eagle-headed : the word is probably connected with and derived from thesame root as Assarac, the name of the chief Assyrian Deity. Theeleventh and twelfth, two winged figures, bearing in their arms,respectively, a fallow-deer and…
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