. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. enced early in December. They would thus be ready forembarkation as soon as the waters of the river were suffi-ciently high to bear a raft so heavily laden, over the rapidsand shallows between Nimroud and Baghdad. WTiilst cut-ting the road I found some carved fragments of ivory si-milar to those already placed in the British Museum; andtwo massive sockets in bronze, in which turned the hinges of a gate of the remains of the door-posts, or other parts ofthe gate, were disco-vered
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. enced early in December. They would thus be ready forembarkation as soon as the waters of the river were suffi-ciently high to bear a raft so heavily laden, over the rapidsand shallows between Nimroud and Baghdad. WTiilst cut-ting the road I found some carved fragments of ivory si-milar to those already placed in the British Museum; andtwo massive sockets in bronze, in which turned the hinges of a gate of the remains of the door-posts, or other parts ofthe gate, were disco-vered, and it is uncer-tain whether these ringswere fixed in stone orwood. In the south-eastern corner of the mound tunnels carried beneath _ , the ruined edifice, which Bronze Socket of the Palace Gate. (Nimroud.) . - , , IS of the seventh cen-tury , showed the remains of an earlier A * Nineveh and its Remains, p. 52. + This building was afterwards explored by Mr. , and wouldappear to have been founded, according to some inscriptions discovere*!amongst the niins, by Iii^lalh II.] ASSYRIAN ARCH. S3 vaulted drain, about five feet in width, was also arch was turned with large kiln-burnt bricks, and restedupon side walls of the same material. The bricks beingsquare, and not expressly made for vaulting, a space was leftabove the centre of the arch, which was filled up by brickslaid longitudhially. Other examples were not wanting in the ruins to prove
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