e have already spoken of the bas-relief of Korkhar ;1 it isabout three hundred miles from Nineveh, but the Assyrian con-querors left traces of their passage even farther from the capitalthan that, in the famous pass of the Lycos, for instance, nearmodern Beyrout, and now called Nahr-el-Kelb, or… … Wï Fig. 122.—Assyrian bas-relief in the Nahr-el-Kelb. Drawn by P. Sellier. the fords of the Euphrates. Following the Pharaohs of thenineteenth dynasty, Esarhaddon caused his own image and royaltitles to be cut in this defile ; they may still be seen there, onrocks whose feet stand in the bed of the…
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