. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. rious other remains, werediscovered. To the north of the ruins of Sennacheribspalace, on the same level, and resting upon a pavement oflimestone slabs, were found four circular pedestals. Theyappeared to form part of a double line of similar objects,extending from the edge of the platform to an entrance to * I Kings, vii. 23-25. The brazen sea of Solomon stood upon twelveoxen, three facing each cardinal point. It must be borne in mind thatthe Assyrian sculptor frequently represented only
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. rious other remains, werediscovered. To the north of the ruins of Sennacheribspalace, on the same level, and resting upon a pavement oflimestone slabs, were found four circular pedestals. Theyappeared to form part of a double line of similar objects,extending from the edge of the platform to an entrance to * I Kings, vii. 23-25. The brazen sea of Solomon stood upon twelveoxen, three facing each cardinal point. It must be borne in mind thatthe Assyrian sculptor frequently represented only one figure to signifymany, and that more than one ox probably supported the vessel por-trayed in this bas-relief. + These measurements merely include that part of the palace actuallyexcavated. 34° NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [Chap. the palace, and may have supported the wooden columns ofa covered way, or have served as bases to an avenue ofstatues. The earth not having been sufficiently cleared awayaround them, I was unable to ascertain whether there wasmore than a double row. They were amongst the very few. Assyrian Pedestal, from Kouyunjik, architectural remains dug out at Nineveh. The ornamentupon them is not inelegant, and is somewhat Saracenic inits character. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the most carefulsearch in all parts of the country round Mosul, I have to find one undoubted Assyrian tomb, nor can I con-jecture how or where the people of Nineveh buried theirdead.* The sepulchral chambers in the hills, so frequentlydescribed in these pages, are unquestionably of a compara- * The tomhs discovered above the ruins, as I have already stated, areprobably Roman or Parthian. Mr. Kassam found in one of them, aftermy departure, a thin mask of gold, which had been moulded upon thefeatures of the deceased, and a t^old coin of the Emperor Loftus discovered a lunili rudely constructed of stone, seventeen feetbeneath the foundations of the south-east pa
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