The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . INSCKIBEU TABLETS. Among the ruins of the palace of Sennacherib werefound the inscribed annals of his reign. They cover aperiod in all of sixty-six years, and consist of three * 2 Kings xviii., 13-16. BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 309 separate records. The first consists of inscriptions onthe winged bulls which ornamented one of the grandfcigades, and extend over a period of six years; the sec-ond is inscribed on a large barrel-shaped terra-cotta cyl-inder, embracing two years; and the third is engravedon
The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . INSCKIBEU TABLETS. Among the ruins of the palace of Sennacherib werefound the inscribed annals of his reign. They cover aperiod in all of sixty-six years, and consist of three * 2 Kings xviii., 13-16. BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 309 separate records. The first consists of inscriptions onthe winged bulls which ornamented one of the grandfcigades, and extend over a period of six years; the sec-ond is inscribed on a large barrel-shaped terra-cotta cyl-inder, embracing two years; and the third is engravedon a hexagonal cylinder of the same material, and in-cludes eight years in all. These several records havebeen deciphered by those thoroughly versed in the trans-lation of the cuneiform characters, and their translationsare accepted as l^stKIlIION^ 0\ lUt. WINGED BULLS, The account of his campaign against Hezekiah is sup-posed to have been written by Sennacherib himself, andis as follows: Because Hezekiah, king of Judah, wouldnot submit to my yoke, I came up against him, and byforce of arms and by the might of my power I took forty-six of his strong fenced cities; and of the smaller townswhich were scattered about I took and plundered a count-less number. And from these places I captured and car-ried off as spoil two hundred thousand one hundred and 310 THRONES AND PALACES OF fifty people, old and young, male and female, togetherwith horses and mares, asses and camels, oxen and sheep,a countless multitude. And Hezekiah himself I shut inJerusalem, his capital city, like a bird in a cage, buildingtowers round the city to hem him in, and raising banks of earth against the gates, so as to prevent escape Then upon this Hezekiah there fell the fear of my ai-ms,and he sent out to me the chiefs and the elders of Jeru-salem
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