Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Inquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient AssyriansAppleton, 1858 |
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Agha alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient animals appears Arabs Armenia Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs British Museum brought building built carried castle centre Chaldæans chamber character chariot chief Christian colors conjecture cuneiform desert Diodorus Siculus discovered dynasty early edifice Egypt Egyptian entrance eunuch Euphrates evidently excavations feet formed fragments frequently gold Greek hand head Herodotus horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lion lower ments Mesopotamia monarch monuments Mosul mound mountains Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh Ninus northwest palace ornaments palace of Nimroud Pasha period Persian plain priests probably remains represented resembling river round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Semiramis Shammar Sheikh Nasr side similar Sinjar slabs Sofuk stone syrian tablet tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb traces trees trenches tribe tures Unsculptured upper valley vases village walls warriors whilst winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis