Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 1J. Murray, 1850 |
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Botta bricks brought building bull carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures compartments desert discovered district encampment entrance eunuch excavations face feet fir-cone followed formed fragments hand head Hormuzd Rassam horned cap horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants Ismail Pasha journey Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lions lower Melek ment Mesopotamia Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests Rassam ravine reached remains returned river rocks rode round ruins sacred salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Syria Tatar tents Tigris Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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