The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . c; ssynan ear-rms(Khorsabad). * Nineveh and Babylon, p. 178.« Ibid. 191, note. Mr. Layard found a gold ear-ng adorned with pearls, together with a number of purely Assyrianrelics, at Koyunjik (ib. p. 595). Hehas figured it, p. 597.^ ikd. pp. 595, 596. 462 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. Bronze cubes inlaid with gold. (Original size.) lined in gold on a bronze ground.^ The work, how-ever, is delicate, and the form very much more trueto nature than


The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . c; ssynan ear-rms(Khorsabad). * Nineveh and Babylon, p. 178.« Ibid. 191, note. Mr. Layard found a gold ear-ng adorned with pearls, together with a number of purely Assyrianrelics, at Koyunjik (ib. p. 595). Hehas figured it, p. 597.^ ikd. pp. 595, 596. 462 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. Bronze cubes inlaid with gold. (Original size.) lined in gold on a bronze ground.^ The work, how-ever, is delicate, and the form very much more trueto nature than that wliich prevailed in Egypt.


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