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Identifier: ninevehpersepoli00vaux (find matches)
Title: Nineveh and Persepolis: an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885
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Publisher: London : A. Hall, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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^ Xenophon in his account of thelower part of the wall of Mespila. The basalt of which the obelisk from Ximroud, and the sittingfiguie from Kalah Sherghat were made, is procured abundantlyfrom the mountains of Kurdistan, in the neighbourhood of Jezirah;and it is probable that the obelisk which, according to a tradition,Semiramis procured from the Armenian mountains, was of thesame material. Several figures and other monuments in the samestone have been found in the Babylonian ruins, and it seems tohave been generally employed, whenever alabaster or limestonecould not easily be procured. From its exceeding hardness, itwas admirably adapted for the preservation of public records. CHAP. XUl.) ASSYRIAN ART. 271 Another chapter, which Mr. Layard has devoted to the armsand dress of the Assyrians, is equally interesting and useful, and
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Figaros staiidini: before the King forms an admirable index to the varieties of costume which maybe found in the published drawings of M. Botta, and in the marblesprocured by him and Mr. Layard. It is a very interesting thing