. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum. Scientific expeditions. MovmG THE Bulls. 97 compartment of this slab is a stream issuing from the foot of hills wooded with vines, fig-trees, and pomegranates. Beneath stands a town or village, the houses of which have domes an^ high conical roofs, probably built of mud, as in parts of northern Syria. The domes have the ap-. Village with the conical Roofe, near Aleppo. pearance of dish-covers with
. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum. Scientific expeditions. MovmG THE Bulls. 97 compartment of this slab is a stream issuing from the foot of hills wooded with vines, fig-trees, and pomegranates. Beneath stands a town or village, the houses of which have domes an^ high conical roofs, probably built of mud, as in parts of northern Syria. The domes have the ap-. Village with the conical Roofe, near Aleppo. pearance of dish-covers with a handle, the upper part being topped by a small circular projection, perhaps in- tended as an aperture to admit light and air. This interesting series is completed by a bas-relief, showing, it would seem, the final placing of the colossal bull. The figure no longer lies horizontally on the sledge, but is raised by men with ropes and forked wooden props. It is kept in its erect position by beams, held to- gether by cross bars and wedges,* and is further sup- ported by blocks of stone, or wood, piled up under the body. Cables, ropes, rollers, and levers are also employ- ed on this occasion to move the gigantic sculpture. The captives are distinguished by the peculiar turbans before We have thus represented, with remarkable fidelity * It may be remarked, that precisely the same framework was used for moving the great sculptures in the British Museum. f See woodcut, p. 92, 5. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894. New York : Putnam
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