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 448
figures struggling with mythic animas,and various other groups, such as are seen on cyhnders and on the robes XI V.J FORTIFICATIONS OF NIMROUD. 393 But the edifice was so utterly destroyed by Esar-haddon,who used the materials in the construction of his own dwell-ing-place, that it is impossible to… … 7 /pUiitwmerL. Spftnijs*- ^ ^^^ ^ •■ ■■■■ ■ Plan of Mound and Inclosure of Nimroud. temples, and on the other to the upper chambers, Esar-haddons palace, and that of his grandson. In the ramparts of earth, marking the inclosure wall ofNimroud to the north, fifty-eight towers can still be…
