. The eastern nations and Greece. s. The sculp-ture thus depicting this cruel prac-tice of the Assyrian kings is a vividillustration of these words of theprophet Isaiah: Therefore will Iput my hook in thy nose, and mybridle in thy lips. — Isa. xxxvii, 29 1 Stone, when employed, was used mainly for decorative purposes and for thefoundation of walls. Because of the freer use of stone by the Assyrian architect andsculptor (sect. 69), the Assyrian ruins have yielded far more monuments than theBabylonian. 70 THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE [§69 In 1843-1844 M. Botta, the French consul at Mosul on theTigris, ex
. The eastern nations and Greece. s. The sculp-ture thus depicting this cruel prac-tice of the Assyrian kings is a vividillustration of these words of theprophet Isaiah: Therefore will Iput my hook in thy nose, and mybridle in thy lips. — Isa. xxxvii, 29 1 Stone, when employed, was used mainly for decorative purposes and for thefoundation of walls. Because of the freer use of stone by the Assyrian architect andsculptor (sect. 69), the Assyrian ruins have yielded far more monuments than theBabylonian. 70 THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE [§69 In 1843-1844 M. Botta, the French consul at Mosul on theTigris, excavated the mound at Khorsabad, and astonished the worldwith most wonderful specimens of Assyrian art from the palace ofSargon II. The sculptured and lettered slabs were removed to themuseum of the Louvre, in Paris. In 1845-1851 Layard disentombedthe palace of Sennacherib and those of other kings at Ninevehand Calah (the earliest capital of the Assyrian kingdom), andenriched the British Museum with the treasures of his Fig. 49. Excavating an Assyrian Palace. (After Layard) 69. Assyrian Palaces and their Wall Sculptures. The Assyriankings paid more attention to the royal residence than to the templesof the gods, though they were by no means neglectful of the imitation of the Babylonian sovereigns they built their palacesand temples upon artificial terraces or platforms. The great palacemound at Nineveh covers an area of about one hundred acres, andis sixty or seventy feet in height. Upon this mound stood severalof the most splendid palaces of the Ninevite kings. The group of buildings constituting the royal residence was oftenof enormous extent; the various courts, halls, and chambers of the §70] THE ROYAL LIBRARY AT NINEVEH 71 palace of Sennacherib, which surmounted the great platform atNineveh, covered an area of twenty acres. The palaces were one-storied. The rooms and galleries were plastered with stucco, paneledwith precious woods, or lined with ename
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