Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 450
^ two miles of bas-reliefs, with twenty-seven portals formed by colossal winged bulls and lion sphinxes,were uncovered in that part alone of the building explored duringhis researches. The cut on page 435 shows some of them. … DISCOVEliED IN THE PALACE. 435 436 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. The greatest length of the excavations was about 720 feet, thegreatest breadth about 600 teet. The pavement of the cham-bers was from twent\- to thirty-tive feet below the surface of themound. The measurements merel\ include that part of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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