. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. INTRODUCTION. tion recording the an-nals of his reign. It isnow in the British Mu-seum. In another partof the building, sup-posed to be a templededicated to Nebo bya king, whose name,according to SirHenry Rawlinson, isto be read Iva-lush, orYama-Zala-Khus; or,according to M. Op-pert, Hou-likhous,and who reignedabout 800 , werediscovered two de-tached statues of thegod, very rudelycarved. On themis an inscription,which, according toSir Henry Rawlin-son, states that theywere offered to
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. INTRODUCTION. tion recording the an-nals of his reign. It isnow in the British Mu-seum. In another partof the building, sup-posed to be a templededicated to Nebo bya king, whose name,according to SirHenry Rawlinson, isto be read Iva-lush, orYama-Zala-Khus; or,according to M. Op-pert, Hou-likhous,and who reignedabout 800 , werediscovered two de-tached statues of thegod, very rudelycarved. On themis an inscription,which, according toSir Henry Rawlin-son, states that theywere offered to Neboby an officer who go-verned certain placesin the Assyrian em-pire for the life of theking (Iva-lush), andof his wife Sammu-ramit, that the godmight lengthen the Statue of the God Nebo. kings life, prolong his days, increase his years, and give peace to his house. INTRODUCTION. xxxiii and people, and victory to his armies,* This Sammu-ramit has been identified, probably upon very slendergrounds, with the Semiramis of classic story; and the groupof cuneiform characters, supposed to represent her nameupon these statues, has enabled Mr. Rawlinson to fix herplace in history, to dispose of classic fables, and to show ina proper light her story, her character, her descent, and hertrue connection with the Assyrian The twostatues are now in the r^ational collection. Whilst Mr. Hormuzd Rassam was carrying on the ex-cavations near Mosul, the late Mr. Loftus, accompanied byMr. Boutcher, an artist sent to the East by Messrs. Dicken-son of Bond Street, had been engaged by the subscribers tothe Assyrian Excavation Fund to continue the examina-tion of the mounds in Southern Mesopotamia and Baby-lonia, which he had commenced when attached to themission of Sir Fenwick Williams of Kars, the British Com-missioner for the determination of the boundaries
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