Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ines,with rooms for the watchmen. These are now termed khazneh, ortreasury houses. A second congeries of rooms around a court, Q, isaccessible through a small room and a long, narrow passage fromthe royal apartments. This is the harem. Passing through anothercourt, U, surrounded by long apartments, and crossing a long, nar-row, transverse chamber, Y, we enter a second space, Z, stretchingdeeply inwards. This was open above, but vaulted by an arch inits farther extremity, so as to form a sort of alcove. Here, on adais, stood the royal bed. Iowards the entrance of these private 84 THE SARGONIBAE. inner apartments, a bench runs along the walls on both sides, deco-rated with a mosaic of enamelled tiles. The ground-color is sky-blue, bordered by a band of white rosettes with yellow eyes. Onthe ground-color is depicted a lion, the hair of whose belly and maneconsists of little locks with blue tips. The muscles and eyes arealso blue ; the teeth and claws, white. After this is an eagle, whose
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Fig. 17. — Winged Bull, frum the ialace of Khorsabad. (A.fter Perrot aud Chipiez.) blue feathers are edged \vdth yellow. Then comes a bull; next anapple-tree with green leaves and yellow trunk, branches and fruit;and, finally, a yellow barque, with mast, pointed keel, highly ele-vated prow, and sails. In the wall of the entrance tliis mosaicpanelling is continued, and shows the Idng and a man witli astaff. From the fragments of bronze scales found in conjunction SARGONS PALACE AT KIIORSAliAD. 85 with the remains of cedar ):)eams and particles of gold, it has beenconcluded that palm-trees, overlaid with gilded bronze, stood onboth sides of the entrance to the sleeping-chamber. At the sideof the doorway, before the angle of the bench, were found free-standing statues five feet seven inches in height, representing a godwith r. tiara, the right hand i-esting on the belly of a bottle, the leftround its neck. Over the tiara lies an abacus, on which one mayconjectui-e a vessel or tripod st

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