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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fresh materials. They appeared to be captives and malefactors, for manyof them were in chains, some singly, others bound togetherby an iron rod attached to rings in their girdles. The fetters eithier confined the legs, and were supported by a barfastened to the waist, or consisted of simple shackles roundthe ankles. The workmen wore a short tunic, and a conicalcap somewhat resembling the Phrygian bonnet, with the topturned backwards. Each gang was attended by task-mastersarmed with staves. The mound, having been thus built, partly with regularlayers of sundried bricks and partly with mere heaped-upearth and mbbish,; the next step was to drag to its summit * See Plates 14 and 15, and series of Monuments of Nineveh. + Part of this bas-relief is in the British Museum. The whole series occupied about twenty-five slabs in the N.E. walls of the great hall. Unfortunately some of the slabs had been entirely destroyed. X Subsequent excavations at Kouyunjik and Nimroud fully verified this fact.
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26 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. I. the colossal figures prepared for the palace. As some of thelargest of these sculptures were full twenty feet square, andmust have weighed between forty and fifty tons, this was noeasy task when the only mechanical powers possessed bythe Asspians appear to have been the roller and the lever.A sledge was used similar to that already described, anddrawn in the same way. In the bas-relief representing theoperation, four officers were seen on the bull, the first appa-rently clapping his hands to make the drawers keep time, thesecond using the speaking trumpet, the third directing themen who had the care of the rollers, and the fourth kneelingdown behind to give orders to those who worked the lever.Two of the groups were preceded by overseers, who turnedback to encourage the workmen in their exertions; and infront of the royal chariot, on the edge of the mound, kneltan officer, probably the chief superintendent, looking towardsthe king to receive orders di

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