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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1401#0234
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THE ILLUSTRATED EXHIBITOR.
number, representing battle-scenes and warriors, with horses and chariots all exquisitely scufoturp nft 1
the Greek, but higher than the Egyptian.* 'J * ' Ilen l0Wer thar.
RLCHARD-I
* Some very interesting sculptures from the same locality, which have taken the name of the " Nimroud Marbles,
Deen Lately removed to England and deposited in the British Museum, through the united exertions of Mr. Layard and Sir f/^"-^"
A tie extent and magnificence of the two palaces described by Mr. Layard in his recently-published work upon ^" tis_
as well as the elaborate details of the sculptures, lead to the conclusion that they are of such remote antiquity as to afford tneffl0^ fc
lactory evidence of the early civilisation of the human race; and their date is allowed to be not later than the commencement 01 ^
Assyrian empire*
182
THE ILLUSTRATED EXHIBITOR.
number, representing battle-scenes and warriors, with horses and chariots all exquisitely scufoturp nft 1
the Greek, but higher than the Egyptian.* 'J * ' Ilen l0Wer thar.
RLCHARD-I
* Some very interesting sculptures from the same locality, which have taken the name of the " Nimroud Marbles,
Deen Lately removed to England and deposited in the British Museum, through the united exertions of Mr. Layard and Sir f/^"-^"
A tie extent and magnificence of the two palaces described by Mr. Layard in his recently-published work upon ^" tis_
as well as the elaborate details of the sculptures, lead to the conclusion that they are of such remote antiquity as to afford tneffl0^ fc
lactory evidence of the early civilisation of the human race; and their date is allowed to be not later than the commencement 01 ^
Assyrian empire*