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 460
furnish us with some positive data on the subject. In theruins of Kouyunjik there is nothing, as far as we are aware, tomark the distinction between the male and female apartments.Of a temple no remains have as yet been found at Kouyunjik,nor is there any high conical mound as at Nimroud and… … 446 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. In all the Assyrian edifices hitherto explored we find thesame o-eneral plan. On the four sides of the great courts or halisare two or three narrow parallel chambers opening one into theother. Most of them have doorways at each end leading intrsmaller rooms, which have no…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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