Travels in Chaldæa, Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 333 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiv
... masses of brickwork ―― - - 183-210 CHAPTER X. Immense hill . - Koubbé , a Mahometan building . - Exca- vations made by the Arabs . - Urns , Alabaster Vase , & c.- Custom of Urn - burial . - Tombs described by Captain Basil Hall ...
... masses of brickwork ―― - - 183-210 CHAPTER X. Immense hill . - Koubbé , a Mahometan building . - Exca- vations made by the Arabs . - Urns , Alabaster Vase , & c.- Custom of Urn - burial . - Tombs described by Captain Basil Hall ...
الصفحة xvi
... Mass of Brick - work at the Birs 14. Babylonian Characters on two bricks found at the Kasr 15. A Babylonian Cylinder in the Author's possession 16. Bronze Figures found at Babylon PAGE . 106 165 • 178 · 190 205 208 • 226 228 229 " UNIL ...
... Mass of Brick - work at the Birs 14. Babylonian Characters on two bricks found at the Kasr 15. A Babylonian Cylinder in the Author's possession 16. Bronze Figures found at Babylon PAGE . 106 165 • 178 · 190 205 208 • 226 228 229 " UNIL ...
الصفحة 41
... instead of show- ing fragments of pillars , or any marks by which we might conjecture the order of architecture , they exhibit an accu- mulation of mounds , which , on a dead flat , soon attract the 42 TRACK OF A LION . The square masses ...
... instead of show- ing fragments of pillars , or any marks by which we might conjecture the order of architecture , they exhibit an accu- mulation of mounds , which , on a dead flat , soon attract the 42 TRACK OF A LION . The square masses ...
الصفحة 42
... masses of brick , facing the cardinal points , and though some . times much worn by the weather , are built with much regu- larity : the neighbourhood of these large mounds is strewed with fragments of tile , broken pottery , and ...
... masses of brick , facing the cardinal points , and though some . times much worn by the weather , are built with much regu- larity : the neighbourhood of these large mounds is strewed with fragments of tile , broken pottery , and ...
الصفحة 73
... masses of brickwork ; to the left , and therefore to the south of the arch , are the re- mains of vast structures , which , though encum- bered with heaps of earth , are yet sufficiently visible to fill the mind of the spectator with ...
... masses of brickwork ; to the left , and therefore to the south of the arch , are the re- mains of vast structures , which , though encum- bered with heaps of earth , are yet sufficiently visible to fill the mind of the spectator with ...
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AHWAZ Akerkouf ancient antiquity appears Appendix Arabia Arabs Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonian BABYLONIAN WRITING Bagdad Basrah Belidian Belus Berosus Birs Nemroud bitumen boat breadth brickwork bridge building built called camel canal cement chap character composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance earth east eastern bank Euphrates extends face feet fifty fragments furlongs gates half heap height Herodotus Hillah HISTORY OF MODERN Hussein Pasha inhabitants inscriptions journey Kasr Kesra khaun king mass Mesopotamia miles MODERN BUSSORAH mosque mounds mountains Mujellibah natives Nimrod Nineveh Note palace Persian Persian Empire plain qu'il reeds remains remarkable Rich river road RUINS OF AHWAZ Sabean says Seleucia Seleucus Nicator Selman Semiramis Sheikh side situated spot square stone Strabo stream Tamarix temple of Belus thick Tigris tion tomb tower of Belus town traced traveller vases village wall western
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الصفحة 205 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
الصفحة 131 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
الصفحة 164 - Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
الصفحة 237 - Chaldee's excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and the owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons...
الصفحة 236 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
الصفحة 167 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
الصفحة 167 - Therefore the wild beasts of the desert, with the wild beasts of the islands, shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein : and it shall be no more inhabited for ever ; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
الصفحة 191 - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
الصفحة 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
الصفحة 32 - That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee : I bare the loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.