Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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two lionssaltant. At a point near Malthaiyeh, in a northern direction fromMosul, and where the way ascends towards the mountains of Kur-distan, a great rock-sculpture, in very flat relief, and much weath-ered, occurs in the neighborhood of a hitherto unexplored palace-terrace. It, too, probably owes its origin to Sennacheril). One seeshere, five times repeated, the king worshipping before an assemblageof three groups of deities, seven in each, that is, twenty-one in all,all standing on animals,—-lions, horses, lynxes (?), and wingedbeasts. In each of the three groups one divinity, probably a god-dess, sits on a throne. The tiara of the gods bears a star and disk ; 92 TBE SABGONIBAE.
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_ X^^^-m Fig. 19. — Reliefs of Bavian. (After Layard.) their left hand holds a ring- and rod, only that one figure seems tohave grasped a bundle of twigs. This last stands on a monster,with the fore-parts of a beast of prey, and a horned head ; the hinderlegs are those of an eagle, and it is A\inged. It is, thus, the animalwhich as a dragon was conquered by Bel, and transfixed l)y the ESARHADDONS CONQUESTS. 93 king in Persepolis, and which appears also on a sandstone relief, andas the beast of the lower regions on a bronze tablet from Hamath,as well as on numerous signet-stones. The figure is the doorkeeperof the \inder-world, as is seen from a little terra-cotta tablet in theBritish Museum, on which the journey of Ishtar to Hades is rep-resented. Sennacherib Avas succeeded by his fourth son, Esarhaddon(Asur-akh-iddin, 680-068), who triumphed over his brothers, themurderers of their father, near Malatieh. Esarhaddon distinguishedhimself especially b)^ moderation and good sense in ma

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