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 391
l-EH AXD JLlBVLON. [Chap. buikling. They were on the very cdj^e of the river-face oftlie mound. The walls of the outer room* hail been almostentirely destroyed. An entrance, formed by colossal wingedtigures, led from it into a seconil chamber, about 24 feetstjuare, in which the sculptures were… … Assyrians cutting down the Palm Trees belonging to a captured City. (Kouyunjik.) a man swimming on an inflated skin.t Sennacherib himself,in his chariot, in the midst of a grove of palm-trees, receivedthe prisoners, and the heads of the slain. The third chamber,;}: entered from that last…
