e to the gorge, and under the alluvial earthcarried down by the stream, he found the remains of carefully-built stone walls, buthe is silent as to the character of the building to which they may have belonged.(Discoveries, p. 215.) 3 See the vignette on page 214 of Layards Discoveries. Assyrian… … Fig. 120.—The great bas-relief at Bavian; from Layard. to have been tombs. They contain no receptacles for bodies, butonly benches. They were, in all probability, cells for Christian 2 2S A History of Art in Chald.ea and Assyria. hermits, cut at the time when monastic life was first developed…
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