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At Khorsabad the average height of the alabaster lining is about ten feet; above that about three feet of brick wall remains. LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. i. pp. 127 and 350; vol. ii. pp. 40 and 350. As to the traces of fire at Khorsabad, see BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 54. LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. ii. pp. 256-264. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, pp. 181-183.
In consequence of facts that have escaped us she may well have furnished the first idea for the romantic legends whose echo has come down to our times. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 96; vol. ii. pp. 71-73. Besides the obelisk of Shalmaneser II., which is in a marvellous state of preservation, the British Museum possesses three other objects of the same kind.
In spite of the obvious objection that the Khorsabad ruins lay at the distance of fifteen miles from the Tigris, which according to every writer of weight anciently washed the walls of Nineveh, it was assumed by the excavator that the discovery of the capital had been reserved for himself, and the splendid work representing the Khorsabad bas-reliefs and inscriptions, which was published in France under the title of "Monument de Ninive," caused the reception of M. Botta's theory in many parts of the Continent.
PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, vol. i. pp. 211-224. Genesis xi. 3. LAYARD, Discoveries, pp. 506 and 531. See, for Chaldæa, LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, p. 133; and for Assyria, PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, vol. i. p. 250, and vol. ii. plates 38 and 39.
A number of sockets found by M. de Sarzec in the ruins of Tello are now deposited in the Louvre. The British Museum has a considerable number found in various places. In the same case as the Balawat gates there is a brick, which has obviously been used for this purpose. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 314.
PLACE, Ninive, &c. vol. i. p. Ibid. p. 33. In every country in which buildings have been surmounted by flat roofs, this precaution has been taken "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence." (Deuteronomy xxii. 8). See also Les Monuments en Chaldée, en Assyrie et
Two of these were made for Assurnazirpal; the third, the most ancient of all, dates from the time of Tiglath Pileser I.; unhappily only fragments of it remain. See also BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. i. plate 64. We here find an instance of one of these arched steles erected before a fortress. Decoration.
Ninive, vol. i. p. 131. In both the examples here reproduced the sculptor has indicated the cords by which the canvas walls were kept in place. Between the two semi-domes the figure of a man rises above the wall to his middle, suggesting the existence of a barbette within. Here the artist may have been figuring a house rather than a tent. STRABO, xv. 3, 10. STRABO, xvi. 1, 5.
This relief is reproduced in PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 40, fig. 6. British Museum; Kouyundjik Gallery, Nos. 34-43. See also LAYARD'S Monuments, plates 8 and 9. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 306, 307. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 140.
It seems probable however, that they might have been obtained from certain districts of Arabia, from which they could be carried without too great an effort to within reach of the canals fed by the Euphrates, or of some port trading with the Persian Gulf. LAYARD, Discoveries, &c., p. 528. LAYARD, Discoveries, p. 116. HERODOTUS, i. 186. BOTTA, Monuments de Ninive, vol. v. p. 3.
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