. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Sennacherib — b. c. 700. PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS. 131 Fio. 28. Ashdod, and took it; events of the seventh century beforeChrist. To complete the series, we add a royal head, (Fig. 26) of the sametimes, but name unknown to us, surmounting a winged-lion ; its onlypeculiarity being the ponderous nose. Net less curiously valuable, whether in its historical, biblical, orethnographic associations,
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Sennacherib — b. c. 700. PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS. 131 Fio. 28. Ashdod, and took it; events of the seventh century beforeChrist. To complete the series, we add a royal head, (Fig. 26) of the sametimes, but name unknown to us, surmounting a winged-lion ; its onlypeculiarity being the ponderous nose. Net less curiously valuable, whether in its historical, biblical, orethnographic associations, is the portrait (Fig. 27,) of Sargans son— Sennacherib, on his throne before We have already beheld (Fig. 14) his Jewish captives. Mr. Layard unfolds, through translation of this kings cuneiform inscrip-tions, points of the grandest scriptural interest10?— Hezekiah, kingof Judah, says the Assyrian king, whohad not submitted to my authority, forty-six of his principal cities, and fortressesand villages depending upon them, of whichI took no account, I captured, and carriedaway their spoil. I shut up (?) himselfwithin Jerusalem, his capital city. We commenced at the seventh, an
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