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Chap. I.
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tlie process of entombment so completely as to protect the hiclden
remains perfectly for tlie many centuries dnring wMcli tiiey liave lain
bnried, and to enable ns now to restore tbeir form almost as certainly
as we can tbose of tbe temples of Greece or Eome, or of any of tbe
great nations of antiqnity.
It is by no means improbable tbat at some future period we may be
able to restore mucb tbat is now unintelligible, from tbe representations
of buildings on tbe sculptures, and to complete our account of tbeir style
of arcbitecture from illustrations drawn by tbe Assyrians tbemselves.
One or two of tbese bave already been publisbed. Tlie annexed wood-
cut, for instance (Xo. 121), of a sculptured viewr of' a little fisbing
pavilion on tbe water’s edge, exbibits in a rude manner all tlie parts of
an Assyrian order witb its entablature, and tbe capital only requires
to be sMghtly elongated to make it similar to tbose found at Persepolis.
Anotber curious representation (woodcut No. 122) is tbat of apalace
of two stories, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik, sbowing a range of openings
under tbe roof in botb stories, divided into three parts by two lonic
columns between square piers, probably meant to represent sucb an
arrangement as tbat shown in woodcut No. 111, wbile the part on tbe
rigbt is a correct representation of tbe panelled style of ornamentation
recently discovered at Ivborsabad and elsewhere. Further comparisons
will no doubt do mucb to complete tbe subject; and wben tbe names
written over tbem are definitively deciphered, we may find tlrat we
really possess contemporary representations of Jerusalem, of Samaria,
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KOYUjSTJIK.
179
tlie process of entombment so completely as to protect the hiclden
remains perfectly for tlie many centuries dnring wMcli tiiey liave lain
bnried, and to enable ns now to restore tbeir form almost as certainly
as we can tbose of tbe temples of Greece or Eome, or of any of tbe
great nations of antiqnity.
It is by no means improbable tbat at some future period we may be
able to restore mucb tbat is now unintelligible, from tbe representations
of buildings on tbe sculptures, and to complete our account of tbeir style
of arcbitecture from illustrations drawn by tbe Assyrians tbemselves.
One or two of tbese bave already been publisbed. Tlie annexed wood-
cut, for instance (Xo. 121), of a sculptured viewr of' a little fisbing
pavilion on tbe water’s edge, exbibits in a rude manner all tlie parts of
an Assyrian order witb its entablature, and tbe capital only requires
to be sMghtly elongated to make it similar to tbose found at Persepolis.
Anotber curious representation (woodcut No. 122) is tbat of apalace
of two stories, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik, sbowing a range of openings
under tbe roof in botb stories, divided into three parts by two lonic
columns between square piers, probably meant to represent sucb an
arrangement as tbat shown in woodcut No. 111, wbile the part on tbe
rigbt is a correct representation of tbe panelled style of ornamentation
recently discovered at Ivborsabad and elsewhere. Further comparisons
will no doubt do mucb to complete tbe subject; and wben tbe names
written over tbem are definitively deciphered, we may find tlrat we
really possess contemporary representations of Jerusalem, of Samaria,
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