Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria . nuously for five , as ambassador at Constantinople, stoodhim in good stead. He took much advantage ofnative talent, which, if not up to the standard ofEuropean efficiency, he found in no wise too many excavations were being carried on atone and the same time. Again, Rassam was proneto attempt sensational finds rather than to keepsteadily at the more solid and less showy work ofexcavation. Guided by certain indications of thepresence of objects of the Shalmaneser period atKouyunjik, he dug there once more and succeededin unea
Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria . nuously for five , as ambassador at Constantinople, stoodhim in good stead. He took much advantage ofnative talent, which, if not up to the standard ofEuropean efficiency, he found in no wise too many excavations were being carried on atone and the same time. Again, Rassam was proneto attempt sensational finds rather than to keepsteadily at the more solid and less showy work ofexcavation. Guided by certain indications of thepresence of objects of the Shalmaneser period atKouyunjik, he dug there once more and succeededin unearthing the bronze plaques which had coveredthe cedar gates of a large Assyrian building at least2500 years old, and built by Shalmaneser II. Theyrepresented warriors and equestrian figures, and itwas found that the site on which they were dis-covered had been the city of Imgur-Bel. Rassamalso recovered further clay tablets from the libraryof Assur-bani-pal at Kouyunjik. With his return toEngland in 1882 it may be said that the Assyrian354. Work of the Excavators in Babylon One hundred workmen laboured in digging this cut, which is 40 feet deepCopyright by Underwood and Undenvood, London 354 DE SARZEC excavations of the nineteenth century, in contra-distinction to those carried out on Babylonian soil,came to an end. De Safzec With the excavations of the Frenchman de Sarzecat Tello the second great period of Chaldean archaeo-logical research may be said to have de Sarzec was French Vice-consul at Basra,but by his private efforts he succeeded in makingTello the Pompeii of early Babylonian two principal mounds excavated by him areknown to Assyriologists as Mound A and MoundB. Digging in the former he soon collected sufficientevidence to convince him that he stood on a siteof great antiquity. He found indeed that Mound Aconsisted of a platform of unbaked bricks crownedby an edifice of considerable size and extent. Heunearthed part of a great statue, on
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