Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldĉan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 1 |
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Botta bricks brought building carried castle Cawass centre Chaldĉans 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 Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lions lower Melek ment Mesopotamia Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nestorian Chaldĉans Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Patriarch Persia plain plunder priests Rassam ravine reached remains 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