. 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. 92 -tTlNEVEH AKD BabYLON". ing beyond both the head and stern, and is held by upright beams fastened to the sides of the vessel, and kept firm in their places by wooden wedges. Two cables are passed through holes cut in the stone itself, and a third is tied to a strong pin projecting from the head of the boat. Each cable is held by a large body of men, who pull by means
. 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. 92 -tTlNEVEH AKD BabYLON". ing beyond both the head and stern, and is held by upright beams fastened to the sides of the vessel, and kept firm in their places by wooden wedges. Two cables are passed through holes cut in the stone itself, and a third is tied to a strong pin projecting from the head of the boat. Each cable is held by a large body of men, who pull by means of small ropes fastened to it and passed round their shoulders. Some of these trackers walk in the water, others on dry land. The number al- together represented must have been nearly 300, about 100 to each cable, and they appear to be divided into distinct bands, each distinguished by a peculiar costume. Some wear a kind of em- broidered turban, through which their long hair is gathered behind ; the heads of others are encir- cled by a fringed shawl, whose ends bans; over the Head-dress of Captives employed by Assyrians in moving *^ Bull (Kouyunjlk). q^ ^^^ UCCk, Icavlug the hair to fall in long curls upon the shoulders. Many are represented naked, but the greater number are dressed in short chequered tunics, with a long fringe attached to the girdle. They are urged on by taskmasters armed with swords and staves. The boat is also pushed by men wad- ing through the stream. An overseer, who regulates the whole proceedings, is seated astride on the fore-part of the stone. His hands are stretched out in the act of giving commands. The huge stone having been landed, and carved by the Assyrian sculptor into the form of a colossal human- headed bull, is to be moved from the bank of the river to the site it is meant to occupy permanently in the pal- ace-temple. This process is represented on the walls of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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