Identifier: travelsingeorgia02port (find matches)
Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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rtained, from col-lation with fifteen entire bricks. That of six lines (b) has had asimilar advantage, having also been compared with several. Thatof four lines (c) was copied from one entire brick, collated withmany fragments, two of which had a figure resembling a spade,impressed at the beginning of their inscriptions ; one of thosepieces was found at Birs Nimrood, and the other at the Kasr.The peculiar fragments of four lines I had picked up at the redconical mound to the east of the Kasr hill, and which were sosingularly stampt on the side, seem to have the same inscriptionas to the import of the letters, as well as to the number of thelines ; the only difference being in the application of the stamp ;every where else, than at that cone, the inscription having beenon the broad face of the brick. The inscription of three lines (d)was copied from the joint evidence of three entire bricks andsome fragments, and presents a variety, of which this is the first • See Plate LXXVII. (a).
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