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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
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/ with their scattered arms;but, as usual, the sculp-tor, to flatter the vanityof his countrymen, hadnot portrayed a singleAssyrian either dead orwounded. In the se-cond frieze the enemy-were seen fighting incarts drawn by mules.In the next compart-ment were Assyrian war-riors bearing the headsof the slain, and leavingthe field of battle in a cartcaptured from the foe.Above this group was anepigraph, unfortunatelymuch mutilated, whichrecorded the slaughterof a king, who appears,from other inscriptionson the same sculptures,to have reigned overElam or Susiana. Behind the cart withthe Assyrian warriorswas the tent of the re-gistrar, to which hadbeen led a captive chiefand his two attendants.Within was collected aheap of human heads,and warriors were bring-ing more of these bloodytrophies to the appointed scribes. In another part of the battle was seen the chariot
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X.) CONQUEST OF SUSIANA. 24.7 of one of the princes of the Elamites. Four spirited horses,wounded by arrows, were plunging and rearing, and thechief and his charioteer were faUing from the overturnedchariot. Beneath was an Assyrian warrior holding his horseby the bridle, and advancing towards a fallen enemy, who,turning towards his conqueror, placed one hand upon histhroat, a gesture either of entreaty, or to indicate his ap-proaching fate. He appears, from an inscription abovehis head, to have been a general of the Susianian king.Around these groups, Assyrians, armed with battle-axes andmaces, were slaying the unresisting foe. In this part ofthe bas-relief were two short epigraphs, which are believedto state that the slaughtered warriors were sons of the kingof Elam. These princes were distinguished by a peculiarround cap, to which was attached a long feather falling downthe back, a head-dress subsequently worn by Persian kings.They were clothed in embroidered and fringed robes, andt

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