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 305
irarms. Some of them knelt, some bowed to the ground, andothers, stretched at full length, rubbed their heads in thedust—signs of grief and submission still practised in theEast. They were followed by a led horse, and by a (arttlrawn by a mule. Another Tartan of the Assyrian army,holding his… … Singers coming out to meet the Conquerors. (Kouyunjik.) David Avas returned from the slaughter of the Philistines,the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singingand dancing to meet Saul, with tabrets, with joy, andwith instruments of music * We find from variouspassages in the Scriptures,…
