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 397
graved uponthem. The subjects are generally either religious or histori-cal, usually the former, and on many are short inscriptionsin the cuneiform character, sometimes containing a royalname, or that of a private individual. These cylinders be-long to several distinct periods. The most ancient… … Ancient Assyrian Cylinder, in Serpentine. bet\veen them and the sculptures in the north-west palace atNimroud, I have ventured to assign others collected by meto the same period. Nearly all the cylinders of this class are of any great importance, except fragments of inscriptions, and an…
