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 78
nd, having been thus built, partly with regularlayers of sundried bricks and partly with mere heaped-upearth and rubbish, j the next step was to drag to its summit * See Plates 14 and 15, 2nd series of Monuments of Nineveh. + Part of this bas-relief is in the British Museum. The whole series… … 26 N/x£\i:ii .L\n n.invLOX. [chap. i. the colossal figures prepared for the palace. As some of thelargest of these sculptures were full twenty feet s/juare, andmust have weighed between forty anil fifty tons, this was noeasy task when the only mechanical powers ])ossessed bythe Assyrians a])pear to…
