The illustrated exhibitor: a tribute to the world's industrial jubilee (London, 1851)

u

article

*\

retail .

yc

No. 11.]

AUGUST 16, 1851

[Price 2d.

tulpterB mtfr tjff ^Imik Irk

Discoveries of the highest importance have been made recently on the site of ancient Nineveh, by M. Botta, the
French Consul'residing at Mossul. He commenced operations in 1843, in the enclosure on the river, and for some
time discovered nothing but bricks and fragments of but little value. Meantime the inhabitants of the environs, seeing
the consul en aged in these researches, brought to him bricks with inscriptions, and other remains of antiquity, which



ALTAR-PIECE.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ , BY G. GEERTS OE LOUVAIN.

induced him to send his workmen to a village called Nimroud, about twenty-five miles distant from Mossul: their
exertions were rewarded by the discovery of an edifice which, from the number and style of the sculptures, he con-
sidered to have been a royal palace. Among the most interesting objects which have come to light are two colossal
statues ot winged bulls, fifteen feet high, with human heads, placed on each side of a passage seven feet and a half wide,
nning, as he presumes, a portal of striking magnificence and grandeur. The bass-reliefs and inscriptions are without

m

Mi

■

..- -. -;- -