Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

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Greek Honeysuckle Ornament.


Greek Honeysuckle Ornament.


On a Lath at Allahabad.


Ornament. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Ornament. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Ornament. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Sacred Tree. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Ear-Ring (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Assyrian Ear-Rings. (Khorsabad.)


Hilt of a Sword. (Khorsabad.)

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End of a Sword Sheath. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Handles of Three Daggers Carried in the Girdle. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


A Throne or Stool. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud)


A Stool. (Khorsabad.)


An Arm-Chair (Khorsabad.)


A Couch or Table. (Khorsabad.)


A Footstool Supported by Lion's Paws. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


A Table. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Altars, or Stands for Jars. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Cup With Handle (Khorsabad.)

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Drinking Cup. (Khorsabad.)


Vase From a Bas-Relief. (Khorsabad.)


Basket or Vessel carried by Winged Figures. (Khorsabad.)


Head-Dress of the King. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Head-Dress of the King. (Kouyunjik.)


A Sandal. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


A Sandal. (Khorsabad.)


A Spearman. (Kouyunjik.)


Greave or Gaiter worn by Warriors. (Khorsabad.)


An Archer. (Kouyunjik.)

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Helmets. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Circular Helmet. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Assyrian Warriors Fighting with the Enemy. An Eagle is carrying away the Entrails of the Slain. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Slinger. (Kouyunjik.)


Assyrian Warrior with Spear and Shield (Kouyunjik.)


Warriors forming a Phalanx before the Walls of a besieged City. (Kouyunjik.)


Assyrian Warriors in a Chariot. (S.W. Ruins, Nimroud, but originally brought from the N.W. Palace.)


Groom Leading Horses. (From a Fragment discovered at Khorsabad, and now in the British Museum.)


Assyrian Chariot of the Later Period (S.W. Ruins, Nimroud. John Murray Albemarle Street, 1848.


Horsemen -- One Drawing the Bow, the Other Holding the Reigns of Both Horses. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)

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Head-Dress of a Riding Horse. (Kouyunjik.)


A Horseman Pursued by Assyrian Warriors, Kouyunjik. (From a cast in the British Museum.)


Battering Ram With Moveable Tower Containing Warriors. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Bas relief representing Warriors before a besieged City. A Battering-Ram drawn up to the Walls, and Captives Impaled. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Warriors Forcing Stones out of the Lower Part of the Wall of a Besieged City. (S.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


A City Taken by Assault, and the Inhabitants Led Away Captive. (Kouyunjik.)


Manacles for the Feet (Khorsabad and Kouyunjik.)


Manacles for the Hands (Khorsabad and Kouyunjik.)


A Pair of Scales for Weighing the Spoil (Khorsabad.)


A Boat Carrying a Chariot and Men Floating on Inflated Skins.

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A Ship. (Khorsabad.)


Ship. (Kouyunjik.)


Coin of uncertain Origin, conjectured to belong to a City on the Syrian Coast during the Persian Occupation.


Castle of a Maritime People, probably the Tyrians. (Kouyunjik.)


A Galley. (Kouyunjik.)


Flying Warrior Discharging an Arrow. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


A Walled City Standing on a River on or on the Sea. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Captive Women in a Cart Drawn by Oxen. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Assyrian Horsemen Pursuing a Man, Probably an Arap, on a Camel. (Centre Ruins, Nimroud.)


Chariot Carried Away by the Assyrians, Amongst Other Spoil, From a Captured City. (Khorsabad.)

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Enemies of the Assyrians discharging their Arrows behind them. (Kouyunjik.)


Bactrian or Two-Humped Camels. (Obelisk, Nimroud.)


Elephant, the Ouran outan (?), the Hounuman or small Indian Monkey(?) (Obelisk, Nimroud.)


The Bull, the Rhinoceros, and the Chikara or large Indian Antelope(?). (Obelisk, Nimroud.)


The Bruh or great Indian Monkey(?), and the Wanderoo or Maned Ape(?). (Obelisk, Nimroud.)


Sacred Emblems suspended round the Neck of the King. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Emblems of the Deity. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Emblems of the Deity. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Emblems of the Deity. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Winged Circle. (Pterium.)

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Idols Carried in Procession by Assyrian Warriors. (S.W. Ruins, Nimroud.)


Hera, or the Assyrian Venus. (From a Rock-Tablet near the ancient Pterium.)


Gryphon. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Winged Horse. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Eagle-Headed Figure. (S.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


Warriors Carrying a Bird. (Centre Palace, Nimroud.)


Lion-Headed Figure. (S.W. Palace, Nimroud.)


The Fish-God. (Khorsabad.)


An Altar, resembling that of the Sassanian Coins. (Khorsabad.)


Fire-altar. (Khorsabad.)


Fire-Altar and Sacrifice. (Kouyunjik.)


Altar, or Tripod. (From Khorsabad.)