. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. tioned; hut it is scarcely possible to determine what the instrumentsreally were : they probably resembled those represented in the bas-rehefsdescribed in the text. The instrument of ten strings mentioned inPsalm xxxiii. 2, xlii. 3, and cxliv. 9, may have been the harp of thesculptures, and the psaltery the smaller stringed instrument.* Wilkinsons Ancient Egyptians, vol. ii. p. 232—234, &c. 254 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [Chap. had their hair in long ringlets, some platted or braided, andothers
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. tioned; hut it is scarcely possible to determine what the instrumentsreally were : they probably resembled those represented in the bas-rehefsdescribed in the text. The instrument of ten strings mentioned inPsalm xxxiii. 2, xlii. 3, and cxliv. 9, may have been the harp of thesculptures, and the psaltery the smaller stringed instrument.* Wilkinsons Ancient Egyptians, vol. ii. p. 232—234, &c. 254 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [Chap. had their hair in long ringlets, some platted or braided, andothers confined in a net.* One held her hands to her throat,as the Arab and Persian women still do when they makethose shrill and vibrating sounds peculiar to the vocal musicof the East The whole scene, indeed, was curiously illus-trative of modern Eastern customs. Behind the two Assyrian generals were cavalry, chariots,led horses, and armed warriors. > 7 1^^^^. Assyrians flaying their Prisoners alive, and carrjing away Heads of the Slain.(Kouyunjik.) A long line of warriors, some bearing maces, bows, spears,and shields, and others crossing their hands before them inthe common Eastern attitude of respect, were the attendantsand bodyguard of the king, and were represented of differentheights, being probably picked men formed into companiesor regiments according to their size and strength. Theywalked in front of a row of trees. Above the Assyrian warriors were captives being tortured,who differed in costume from the Susianian fighting-menrepresented in the adjoining bas-reliefs. They were distin-guished by the smallness of their stature, and by a very * The modem fashion appears, therefore, to be but a revival of a veryancient one. Isaiah inchirles the caps of network amongst the va-rious articles of dress of the Jewish women (cli. iii. v. 8, Rev. Mr. Jonessversion). X.] CAPTIVES PUT TO THE TORTURE. 255 marked Jewish countenance—a sharp hooke
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