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Title: Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert: being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British museum
Identifier: amongtheruins00laya (find matches)
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, 1817-1894
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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390 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [CHAr XX and were once again subdued ? They wore a kind of conical cap, to which were attached two or more tails or ribands, an inner garment reaching a little below the knee, an outer fringed robe falling down the back to the ankles, and boots turned up at the toes and laced in front. A band hanging over their shoul- ders ended in a tassel. Some in iron fetters were being led before the king, for judgment or pardon. Others had been con- demned to the torture, and were already in the hands of the ex- ecutioners. Two were stretch- ed naked at full length on the ground, and whilst their limbs were held apart by pegs and cords they were being flayed alive. Beneath them were oth- er unfortunate victims under- going abominable punishments. The brains of one were appar- ently being beaten out with an iron mace, whilst an officer held him by the beard. A torturer was wrenching the tongue out of the mouth of a second wretch who had been pinioned to the ground. The bleeding heads of the slain were tied round the necks of the living, who seemed reserved for still more barbarous tortures. Above these groups was a short epigraph, commencing by two determinative signs of prop- er names, each followed by a blank space, which the sculptor probably left to be filled up with the names of the principal vic- tims. It then declares that these men, having spoken bias-
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