The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Captive women in a cart (Nimrud). F[ff. Kuius of Palace of Seiinacherib. 2. Supposed Tomb of Jonab. CH. I.] CITIES OF UNCERTAIN SITE. 135 the modern village of Sherif-khan. Here was a palace, builtby Esarhaddon for one of his sons, as well as several tem-ples and other edifices. In the opposite direction at the dis-tance of about twenty miles, is Kereniles, an Assyrian ruin,whose name canno
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Captive women in a cart (Nimrud). F[ff. Kuius of Palace of Seiinacherib. 2. Supposed Tomb of Jonab. CH. I.] CITIES OF UNCERTAIN SITE. 135 the modern village of Sherif-khan. Here was a palace, builtby Esarhaddon for one of his sons, as well as several tem-ples and other edifices. In the opposite direction at the dis-tance of about twenty miles, is Kereniles, an Assyrian ruin,whose name cannot yet be rendered j^honetically.^ West ofthis site, and about half-way between the ruins of Nineveh andNmirud or Calah, is Selaniiyah, a village of some size, thewalls of which are thought to be of Assyrian cunstruction.^^°We may conjcK-ture that this place was the Resen, or Dase,^of Holy Scripture, which is said to have been a large city, in-terposed between Nineveli and Calah. In the .same latitude,but considerably further to the east, Avas tlie famous city ofArabil or Arbil,i* known to the Greeks as Arbela, and to thisday retaining its ancient appellation. These were the princi-pal towns, whose positions can be fixed, belon
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