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 400
is one in jasper, en-graved with a man seated ina car of peculiar construction drawn by four horses : in frontof him are seven human heads and two birds. A few cylinders and gems, Assyrian in character, are in-scribed with Semetic letters, resembling the Phoenician andcursive Babylonian. They are… … Babylonian Cylinder, in Jasper. 548 NIXEVEH AND BAnVLON. [Chap. the districts on the eastern l)Or(krs of the Syrian desert.They ajipear to belong to various i)eriods. iVoni the time ofthe iower Ass)Tian dynasty to that of the Tersian occupation 9j7?-<h^^^^.^
