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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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built of mud, as in parts of Northern S\Tia. This interesting series was completed by a bas-relief, show-ing, it would seem, the final placing of the colossal bull
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28 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. The figure no longer lay on its side on the sledge, but washeld upright by men with ropes and forked wooden props.It was kept in its erect position by beams, held together bycross bars and wedges* and was further supported by blocksof stone or wood. On the sledge, in front of the bull, stoodan officer giving directions with outstretched hands to theworkmen. Cables, ropes, rollers, and levers were used bythe workmen. Unfortunately the upper part of all the slabshad been destroyed, and much of the subject was conse-quently wanting. Thus was represented with remarkable fidelity and spirit,the several processes employed to place these colossi wherethey still stand—from the transport down the river of therough block to the final removal of the sculptured figure tothe palace. When moving the winged bulls and lions nowin the British Museum from the ruins to the banks of theTigris, I used almost the same means as the ancient Assy-rians, employing, however, a c

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