The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored: An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian ArchitectureJ. Murray, 1851 - 368 sivua |
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Sivu 128 - And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Ju<Iah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD...
Sivu 50 - In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbeth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Sivu 228 - And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
Sivu 191 - ... ornaments of gold from the tabsar, the circumference of which was embossed with similar stones. Under this window the several ranks of military were drawn out in due gradation, until the last line took post in the kashudzar, or ample area, in which were posted soldiers of the lowest order. When the king issued forth like the sun from the orient of the tabsar, all the people prostrated themselves in adoration, and the monarch devoted himself to the concerns of mankind. The tabsar is a place of...
Sivu 105 - Xerxes the king, the great king, the king of kings, the king of the many peopled countries, the supporter also of the great world, the son of King Darius the Achaemenian.
Sivu 57 - Eusebius*, which, as it comes almost certainly from the native Berosus, is entitled to the utmost confidence, and leads us almost exactly to the same date. " After all these successive periods of years he states that Semiramis reigned over the Assyrians, and again minutely enumerates the names of forty-five kings, assigning to them a term of 526 years, after whom he says there was a king of the Chaldeans whose name was Phulus,
Sivu 63 - Chaldasans during a period of four neri. And he was succeeded by his son Comosbelus, who held the empire four neri and five sossi. But from the time of Xisuthrus and the deluge, to that at which the Medes took possession of Babylon, there were altogether eighty-six kings.
Sivu 50 - The soa of Elah, and the last of the kings of Israel. In the ninth year of his reign, the Assyrian king, provoked by an attempt which Hoshea made to form an alliance with Egypt, and so throw off the Assyrian yoke, marched against Samaria, and, after a siege of three years, took it, and carried the people away into Assyria.
Sivu 194 - Venus, civil officers and persons of that description were received; and there were five other palaces for the remaining five planets. In each of these buildings he gave public audience, according to the planet of the day. The furniture and paintings of...
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