The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . r enamel, uponwhich characters were inscribed. The floors of thechambers were paved with burnt brick, laid inbitumen. Two of the doorways were arched, thearch extending through the whole thickness of thewalls; it was semicircular, and was constructed withbricks made wedge-shaped for the purpose. A gooddeal of charred date-wood was found in the house,probably the remains of rafterswhich had supported the The chambers at Abu-Shah-rein were o
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . r enamel, uponwhich characters were inscribed. The floors of thechambers were paved with burnt brick, laid inbitumen. Two of the doorways were arched, thearch extending through the whole thickness of thewalls; it was semicircular, and was constructed withbricks made wedge-shaped for the purpose. A gooddeal of charred date-wood was found in the house,probably the remains of rafterswhich had supported the The chambers at Abu-Shah-rein were of sun-dried brick,with an internal covering of fineplaster, ornamented with one the ornamentation con-sisted of a series of red, black,and white bands, three inches inbreadth; in another was repre-sented, but very rudely, thefigure of a man holding a birdon his wrist, with a smallerfigure near him, in red jDaint.^The favourite external ornamen-tation for houses seems to havebeen by means of coloured conesin terra cotta, which were im-bedded in moist mud or plaster,and arranged into a variety of Terra cotta cone. Actual size. pattemS.*. Loftus, Chaldcea and Susiana,p. 133. ^ Journal of Asiatic Society, pp. 265, 26G. : Ibid. p. 408, and p. 410. • Loftus, Chaldcea and Stisiana,pp. 188-9. The building discoveredby Mr. Loftus (from which the aboverepresentation is taken) was at War-ka, and therefore might perhaps not Chap. V. ARCHITECTURE. 105
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