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 27
s a highly finishedand admirably preserved bas-relief, in which the king is seenlying on a couch or bed,beneath an arbour formed byvines, apparently at a ban-quet, as he is raising a cup in his right hand, and near himis a table on which are probably some viands. By hisside, seated on a raised… … ca INTRODUCTION. XXXl This sculpture, and one or two others from the sameseries now in the British Museum, especially a warrior ona horse at full speed, are carved with the sharpness, preci-sion, and delicacy of a Greek gem. They are singularly fineexamples of the perfec- tion to which the…
