The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . horsabad, from a small village which formerly oc-cupied its summit ^ —the scene of the labors of M. Botta, whowas the first to disentomb from among the mounds of Mesopo-tamia the relics of an Assyrian palace. The enclosure atKhorsabad is nearly square in shape, each side being about2000 yards long.* No part of it is very lofty, but the wallsare on every side well marked. Their angles point towardsthe card
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . horsabad, from a small village which formerly oc-cupied its summit ^ —the scene of the labors of M. Botta, whowas the first to disentomb from among the mounds of Mesopo-tamia the relics of an Assyrian palace. The enclosure atKhorsabad is nearly square in shape, each side being about2000 yards long.* No part of it is very lofty, but the wallsare on every side well marked. Their angles point towardsthe cardinal points, or nearly so; and the walls themselvesconsequently face the north-east, the north-west, the south-west, and the south-east. Towards the middle of the north-west wall, and projecting considerably beyond it, was a raisedplatform of the usual character; and here stood the great pal-ace, which is thought to have been open to the plain, and onthat side quite undefended.* Four miles only from Khorsacld, in a direction a little westof north, are the ruins of a smaller Assyrian city, whose na-tive name appears to have been Tarbisa, situated not far from Vol. Plate XXXV, Fig.
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