M. Botta's letters on the discoveries at Nineveh [with notes by J. Mohl] tr. by C.T. [With] Illustrations of discoveries at Nineveh1850 |
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able to copy Academy of Inscriptions ancient appears archæological armed arrow ascertained Assyrian attired Baghdad ball band of inscription bas-relief representing beard bearing beneath bitumen BOTTA bricks brickwork bull calcined characters chariot clad colossal figures colour complete Constantinople cuneiform inscription decayed defaced describe discernible discovered DISCOVERIES AT NINEVEH disinterred displays doubtless earth east eastward entire excavations extremity flag-stone fortress fragments fringed GROTEFEND gypsum slabs hand head horses imagine labours large chamber Layard's Nineveh legs likewise lower border Major RAWLINSON merely mètres MOHL monument mound Ninus observed opposite ornament painted red paved perceive Persepolis Persian Phrygian cap Plan Plate platform portal portion present preserved Prince ALBERT probably remains remark robe roof Royal Asiatic Society sculptures seen Semiramis sent similar specimen stone sword thick three feet three personages tiara tion traces Turning westward wall xx warriors western partition whereon winged figure workmen XXXI
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Page i - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page xi - And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;§ the one of brick, the other of stone : they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform...
Page i - And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days
Page 12 - Anklets — one-fourth of the real size. uncommon than they formerly were. They are of course very heavy, and, knocking together as the wearer walks, make a ringing noise ; hence it is said in a song, " The ringing of thine anklets has deprived me of my reason.
Page vi - GEOTEFEXD, who professes to be rather the decipherer than the translator of the cuneiform inscriptions, and who engages merely to open the way to those whose attention has been much devoted to the study of the ancient languages of Persia, has however succeeded in translating some of the inscriptions on the ruins of Persepolis, and one from those of Pasargadce.
Page xi - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water...
Page x - We learn from ancient authors that the usual method of preserving Assyrian and Babylonian records " was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed."* To this * Layard's "Nineveh,
Page vi - Grotefend observes, that there are three varieties of those inscriptions, distinguished from each other by the greater complication of the characters formed by the radical signs of a wedge (or arrow) and an angle.
Page 26 - In fact, the earth within the brickwork differs in no respect from that encumbering the passages. I must yet remark that, as well as copper plugs, numerous pieces of thick stucco are found in the earth, of a beautiful azure blue colour, similar to that which adorns the bas-reliefs. Besides, as there is also a great quantity of charcoal to be seen, I suppose the wooden roof was destroyed by fire, and thus the gypsum partitions became calcined and converted into plaster.
Page vi - Persepolitan species. The cuneiform is the most ancient character of which we have any knowledge. It is difficult to say in what country it was invented ; but its use was common to the great nations of antiquity, the Median, Persian, and Assyrian ; and, as Prof.