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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 460
sts must,of course, depend upon analogy and conjecture; but it may, wethink, be accepted as highly probable, until fuller and moreaccurate translations of the inscriptions than can yet be mademay furnish us with some positive data on the subject. In theruins of Kouyunjik there is nothing, as far as… … 446 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. \ In all the Assyrian edifices hitherto explored we find thesame general plan. On the four sides of the great courts or hallsare two or three narrow parallel chambers opening one into theother. Most of them have doorways at each end leading intosmaller rooms, which have no…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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