. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . thwoodwork of fragrant cedar and cypress overlaid with goldand silver, panellings of sculptured marble and alabaster,and friezes and cornices in glazed tiles of brilliant colour-ing : inspired by the goddess Nin-kurra, he caused wingedbulls of white alabaster and limestone statues of the godsto be hewn in the quarries of Balad near Nineveh. Hepresided in person at all these operations—at the raisingof the soil, the making of the substructures of the terrace,the transport of the colossal statues or blocks and theirsubsequent erection;
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . thwoodwork of fragrant cedar and cypress overlaid with goldand silver, panellings of sculptured marble and alabaster,and friezes and cornices in glazed tiles of brilliant colour-ing : inspired by the goddess Nin-kurra, he caused wingedbulls of white alabaster and limestone statues of the godsto be hewn in the quarries of Balad near Nineveh. Hepresided in person at all these operations—at the raisingof the soil, the making of the substructures of the terrace,the transport of the colossal statues or blocks and theirsubsequent erection; indeed, he was to be seen at everyturn, standing in his ebony and ivory chariot, drawn by ateam of men. When the building was finished, he was so THE BUILDINGS AT NINEVEH 65 delighted with its beauty that he named it the incompar-able palace, and his admiration was shared by his contem-poraries ; they were neyer wearied of extolling in glowingterms the twelve bronze lions, the twelve winged bulls,and the twenty-four statues of goddesses which kept watch. KING SENNACHEEIB WATCHING THE TEANSPOET OFA COLOSSAL STATUE. over the entrance, and for the construction of which a newmethod of rapid casting had been invented. Formerly theerection of such edifices cost much in suffering to theartificers employed on them, but Sennacherib brought hisgreat enterprise to a prompt completion without extravagantoutlay or unnecessary hardship inflicted on his proceeded to annex the neighbouring quarters of the 1 Drawn by Faucber-Gudin, from VIII. ^ 66 SENNACHERIB city, relegating the inhabitants to the suburbs while he laidout a great park on the land thus cleared; this park waswell planted with trees, like the heights of Amanus, and inifc flourished side by side all the forest growths indigenous
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