Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 105
e door-posts, or other parts ofthe gate, were disco-vered, and it is uncer-tain whether these ringswere fixed in stone orwood. In the south-easterncorner of the moundtunnels carried beneaththe ruined edifice, whichis of the seventh cen-tury B. c, showed the remains of an earlier building, f A *… … Bronze Socket of the Palace Gate. (Nimroud/ II.] ASSYRIAN ARCH. 53 vaulted drain, about five feet in width, was also discovered.The arch was turned with large kiln-burnt bricks, and restedupon side walls of the same material. The bricks beingsquare, and not expressly made for vaulting, a space was…
