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 . ber or gallery, the true object of which still re-mains wholly unexplained. This gallery was 100 feet long. 12feet high, and no more than 6 feet broad. It was arched orvaulted at top, both the side walls and the vaulting being ofsun-dried brick. [PI. LIV., Fig. 2.] Its position was exactlyhalf-way between the towers northern and southern faces,and with these it ran parallel, its height in the tower beings
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 . ber or gallery, the true object of which still re-mains wholly unexplained. This gallery was 100 feet long. 12feet high, and no more than 6 feet broad. It was arched orvaulted at top, both the side walls and the vaulting being ofsun-dried brick. [PI. LIV., Fig. 2.] Its position was exactlyhalf-way between the towers northern and southern faces,and with these it ran parallel, its height in the tower beingsuch that its floor was exactly on a level with the top of the stonemasonry, which again was level with the terrace or platformwhereupon the Nimrud palaces stood. There was no trace ofany way by which the gallery was intended to be entered; itswalls showed no signs of inscription, sculpture, or other orna-ment; and absolutely nothing was found in it. Mr. Layard,prepossessed with an opinion derived from several confusednotices in the classical writers, ^ believed the tower to be asepulchral monun\ont, and the gallery to be the tomb in which -V^a> < Vol. I. \\ ^^^^ ^^ Plate Plate LVI, Vol. Fig 1.
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