Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Band 1J. Murray, 1854 |
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey bricks brought building carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures 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 lions lower Melek ment Mesopotamia Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nestorian Chaldæans Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh north-west palace ornaments party Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests Rassam ravine reached remains river rocks rode round ruins sacred salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Syria Tatar tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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Seite 262 - 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.
Seite 74 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so folldwing, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Seite 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.
Seite 4 - Calah ; the same is a great city." (Gen. x. 11, 12.) The ruins of Nimroud had been identified with Resen, of which Larissa was believed, first, by Bochart, to be a corruption, arising from the (presumed) use, by the inhabitants of the country, of the common Shcmitic article " al
Seite 46 - 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 employed for two nights in bringing stones from distant villages for that purpose.* " We have destroyed more real tombs of the true Believers," said he, " in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones.
Seite 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.
Seite 25 - Hopes, long cherished, were now to be realised, or were to end in disappointment. Visions of palaces under-ground, of gigantic monsters, of sculptured figures, and endless inscriptions, floated before me. After forming plan after plan for removing the earth, and extricating these treasures, I fancied myself wandering in a maze of chambers from which I could find no outlet. Then, again, all was reburied, and I was standing on the grasscovered mound. Exhausted, I was at length sinking into sleep, when...
Seite 6 - Chalda3a as he had left behind him in Asia Minor or Syria, his search would be vain. The graceful column rising above the thick foliage of the myrtle...
Seite 71 - ... boughs ; ... his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long, because of the multitude of waters when he shot forth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations ; " for now is " Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her : all the beasts of the...
Seite 2 - Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing to cross the great river, and to explore those lands which are separated on the map from the confines of Syria by a vast blank stretching from Aleppo to the banks of the Tigris.