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Their religion is in fact a conglomeration of various survivals from the different systems that have successively obtained in that part of Asia. They themselves have no clear idea of it as a whole. It would repay study by an archæologist of religions. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 70. See above, page 118, note 1. Some rooms are as much as thirty feet wide.
This accumulation has sometimes reached a height of about 24 feet. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 294. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 293-294. E. FLANDIN, Voyage archéologique
Who, then, kept Jonas in the belly of the whale, till he was spouted up at Ninive? Well do we know it was no one but He who kept the Hebrew people from drowning in the waters, and made them to pass through the sea with dry feet.
In the British Museum there are some smaller bronze objects of the same kind from the palace of Sennacherib. Its internal diameter is about five inches, and its weight 6 lbs. 3-3/4 oz. These rings are now in the British Museum. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. pp. 53-55. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, plates 149 and 150. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, p. 175.
PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 313. Ibid. p. 310 PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 311. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 307. See BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 53; Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 306, 307. LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 15. TAYLOR, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 409. LAYARD, Discoveries, p. 260. LAYARD, Discoveries, pp. 645-6. LAYARD, Monuments, &c., first series, plate 19.
The air is thick with the materials thrown down from its summit, among them a great number of planks or beams, which seem to suggest that timber was freely employed in the upper works of an Assyrian wall. If this was so, the pointed battlements in the reliefs may very well represent those in which timber was used, and the stepped ones their brick imitations. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 85.
But in all the long list of enthusiasts not one deserves a higher honor or has reaped a richer harvest than Sir Henry Layard. Layard: "Early Adventures;" "Nineveh and its Remains;" "Nineveh and Babylon;" "Monuments of Nineveh." Botta: "Monument de Ninive." Loftus: "Chaldea and Susiana." Y. Place: "Ninive et Assyrie."
The twelve lessons or prophecies read on this day were intended for the instruction of the catechumens; and they are well selected for that purpose, as they contain an account of the creating, the flood, the obedience of Abraham, the deliverance of God's people from their enemies at the red sea, the precept concerning the paschal lamb, the conversion of Ninive, the refusal of the three children to adore Nabuchodonosor's statue, etc. they are twelve in the ancient Gelasian Ordo.
The domes and arcades were of well-burnt brick; the straight walls were often built of broken stone, when it was to be had in the neighbourhood. At Ctesiphon, on the other hand, the great building known as the Takht-i-Khosrou is entirely of brick. This exact and penetrating critic shares our belief in these relations between the Chaldæan east and Roman Asia. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 266-267.
Such openings may well have been pierced under Assyrian domes. From many of the illustrations we have given, it will be seen that the Ninevite architects had no objection to windows, provided they could be placed in the upper part of the wall. It is of windows like ours, pierced at a foot or two above the ground, that no examples have been found. PLACE. Ninive, vol. i. pp. 312-314.
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