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 107
palace for the removal of the bull and lion during the formerexcavations, left uncovered the entrance to a vaulted drain or 54 xiXEVE/f .ixn nAnvi.ox. K 11 Al. p:issagc bulk of sun-dried bricks. ricncath was a smallwater-course, inclosed by sijuare slabs of alabaster.* Athird arch was found beneath… … Vaulted Drain beneath the North-west Palace at Nimroud. of the city of Nineveh, or the park attached to the royal resi-dence, the level of the soil is considerably higher than in anyother part of the inclosed space. This sudden inequalitye\idently indicates the site of some ancient edifice. Con- *…
