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 444
of the metal called gold, both in the sacred writings and inthe profane authors of antiquity, was really copper, alloyed with othermetals, the aurichalcum, or orichalcum, of the Greeks, such as was usedin the bowls and plates discovered at Nimroud. X 2nd series of the Monuments of Nineveh, plate… … nificent edifices when they still rose on their massy base-ment, and were reflected in the broad stream of the Tigris. 390 \/.\i:i/:n .ixn y..//.)7.().\. [Cmap. I must refer the reader, who desires lo follow me in the fol-lowiiii; description, to the accompanying general plan of theplatform and…
