Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers, and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 1John Murray, 1849 - 491 páginas |
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... usual good fortune , we suc- ceeded in reaching Nisibin unmolested , although we ran daily risks , and more than once found ourselves in the midst of foraging parties , and of tents which , an hour before , had been pillaged by the ...
... usual good fortune , we suc- ceeded in reaching Nisibin unmolested , although we ran daily risks , and more than once found ourselves in the midst of foraging parties , and of tents which , an hour before , had been pillaged by the ...
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... usual documents given to travellers when recommended by the Embassy , and with strong letters of introduction to the authorities at Mosul and in the neighbourhood . My preparations were soon completed , and I started from Constantinople ...
... usual documents given to travellers when recommended by the Embassy , and with strong letters of introduction to the authorities at Mosul and in the neighbourhood . My preparations were soon completed , and I started from Constantinople ...
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... usual inscriptions and the corner - stone ( No. 4. ) , which had evidently been brought from another building , was richly ornamented with carved flowers and scroll - work . But still no sculptures had been discovered ; nor could any ...
... usual inscriptions and the corner - stone ( No. 4. ) , which had evidently been brought from another building , was richly ornamented with carved flowers and scroll - work . But still no sculptures had been discovered ; nor could any ...
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... usual rounds in search of plundering Arabs . Daoud Agha confessed to me on our way that he had received orders to make graves on the mound , and that his troops had been em- ployed for two nights in bringing stones from distant villages ...
... usual rounds in search of plundering Arabs . Daoud Agha confessed to me on our way that he had received orders to make graves on the mound , and that his troops had been em- ployed for two nights in bringing stones from distant villages ...
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... usual inscription . I had scarcely resumed my labours when I received information that the Cadi of Mosul was endeavouring to stir up the people against me , chiefly on the plea that I was carrying away treasure ; and , what was worse ...
... usual inscription . I had scarcely resumed my labours when I received information that the Cadi of Mosul was endeavouring to stir up the people against me , chiefly on the plea that I was carrying away treasure ; and , what was worse ...
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Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volume 1 Austen Henry Layard Visualização integral - 1850 |
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volume 1 Austen Henry Layard Visualização integral - 1849 |
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volume 1 Austen Henry Layard Visualização integral - 1850 |
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst appeared Arabs arrow Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Botta bricks brought building carpets carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures compartments desert discovered district encampment entrance eunuch excavations face feet fir-cone followed formed fragments hand head Hormuzd Rassam horned cap horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants Ismail Pasha journey Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lion lower Melek ment Mesopotamia Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans Nestorian Nestorian Chaldæans Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests Rassam ravine reached remains returned river rocks rode round rubbish ruins salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Tatar tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trenches tribe uncovered Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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Página 74 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Página 71 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Página 261 - And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Página 298 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Página 30 - Wallah ! your books are right, and the Franks know that which is hid from the true believer. Here is the gold, sure enough, and please God, we shall find it all in a few days. Only don't say any thing about it to those Arabs, for they are asses and cannot hold their tongues. The matter will come to the ears of the Pasha.
Página 67 - Sheikh could be prevailed upon to descend into the pit, and convince himself that the image he saw was of stone. 'This is not the work of men's hands...
Página 12 - However, it was evident that the monument appertained to a very ancient and very civilised people, and it was natural from its position to refer it to the inhabitants of Nineveh, a city which, although it could not have occupied a site so distant from the Tigris, must have been in the vicinity of the place. M. Botta had discovered an Assyrian edifice, the first, probably, which had been exposed to the view of man since the fall of the Assyrian Empire.
Página 71 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Página 68 - The news soon got to the ears of the cadi, who, anxious for a fresh opportunity to annoy me, called the mufti and the ulema together to consult upon this unexpected occurrence. Their deliberations ended in a procession to the governor, and a formal protest on the part of the Mussulmans of the town against proceedings so directly contrary to the laws of the Koran. The cadi had no distinct idea whether the bones of the mighty hunter had been uncovered or only his image; nor did Ismail Pasha very clearly...
Página 68 - As he requested me to discontinue my operations until the sensation in the town had somewhat subsided, I returned to Nimroud and dismissed the workmen, retaining only two men to dig leisurely along the walls without giving cause for further interference. I ascertained by the end of March the existence of a second pair of winged human-headed lions, differing from those previously discovered in form, the human shape being continued to the waist, and being furnished with human arms, as well as with...