. 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. Objects in Bronze. 151 The first objects found in this chamber were two plain copper vessels or caldrons, about 2J feet in diameter, and 3 feet deep, resting upon a stand of brickwork, with their mouths closed by large tiles. Near them was a copper jar, which fell to pieces almost as soon as uncovered. Several vases of the same metal, though smaller in size, had been dug out
. 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. Objects in Bronze. 151 The first objects found in this chamber were two plain copper vessels or caldrons, about 2J feet in diameter, and 3 feet deep, resting upon a stand of brickwork, with their mouths closed by large tiles. Near them was a copper jar, which fell to pieces almost as soon as uncovered. Several vases of the same metal, though smaller in size, had been dug out of other parts of the ruins; but they were empty, whilst those I am describing were filled with carious relics. I first took out a number of small bronze bells* with iron tongues, and various small copper orna- ments, some suspended to wires. With them were a quantity of tapering bronze rods, bent into a hook, and ending in a kind of lip. Beneath were several bronze cups and dishes, which I succeeded in removing entire. Scattered in the earth amongst these objects were several hundred studs and buttons in mother of pearl and ivory, with many small rosettes in metal. All the objects contained in these caldrons, with the exception of the cups and dishes, were probably ornaments of horse and chariot furniture. Beneath the cal- drons were heaped. Feet of Tripods in Bronze and Iron. * The caldrons contained about eighty bells. The largest are 3^ inches high, and 2^ inches in diameter, the smallest If inch high, and li inch in diameter. With the rest of the relics they are now in the British Mu- 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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