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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 94

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upperhalf of the next slab had been destroyed, upon the lower waspart of the figure of the Assyrian Hercules strangling thelion, similar to that discovered between the bulls in the pro-pyla?a of Khorsabad, and now in the Louvre. The hinderpart of the lion was still preserved. The legs, feet,… … c 33 T3 G o •a rt 42 j\7u\£ VEH A ND BA li YLON. [ r 11 a i •. II. by a ])air of winged bulls, twenty feet long *i*l probably,when entire, more than twenty feet lii;,h, und two giganticwinged figures in low relief* ilanking them wirr two smallerfigures, one above the other. IJeyond this entrance…

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Assyria · Assyria -- Description and travel · Nineveh (Extinct city) · Babylon (Extinct city)

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