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 176
ound on a cylinder from Sheriff Khan,now in the British Museum. The grandfather paid tribute to Sardana-palus, the Nimroud king. The date of the monuments at Arljan wouldbe about 820 B.C. according to Sir H. Rawlinson, v.] DISCOVERIES AT ARBA.Y. 123 glazed, had assumed the brilliant and varied… … Lion discovered at Arban. vain for the remains of walls, although digging for three daysto the right and left of the sculptures, a work of considerabledifficulty in consequence of the immense heap of superin-cumbent earth. I then directed a tunnel to be carriedtowards the centre of the mound,…
