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 398
The subjects are usually theking in his chariot discharging his arrows against a lion orwild bull, warriors in battle, the monarch or priests in adora-tion before the emblem of the deity, the eagle-headed god,wino-ed bulls and lions, and other mythic animals, accom-panied by the common Assyrian… … Assyrian Cylinders, in Serpentine. in the midst of thirty-two human heads, probably the seal ofa successful warrior. Upon another are a turtle, a bird, anda human figure. •The next in order of date are those of the time of Sargonand his successors. To this period belong the cylinder withthe…
