A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAP. III. RETURN TO MOSUL. ? ISMAIL PASHA CHANGE IN THE STATE OF THE COTJNTRY. ? RETURN TO NIMROUD. THE RUINS IN SPRING. EXCAVATIONS RESUMED. FURTHER DISCOVERIES. ? NEW INTERRUPTIONS. ? SHEIKH ABD-UR-RAHMAN AND THE ABOU-SALMAN ARABS. FRESH BAS- RELIEFS IN THE NORTH-WEST CORNER.?DISCOVERY OF THE PRINCIPAL PALACE. ENTIRE BAS-RELIEFS. DISCOVERY OF THE COLOSSAL LIONS. ? SURPRISE OF THE ARABS. ? SENSATION AT MOSUL, AND CONDUCT OF THE PASHA AND CADI. ? EXCAVATIONS STOPPED. FURTHER DISCOVERIES. DESCRIPTION OF THE HUMAN-HEADED LIONS. REFLECTIONS ON THEIR ANTIQUITY AND OBJECT. THE JEBOUR ARABS. ? THEIR SHEIKHS.? NIMROUD IN MARCH. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAIN AT SUNSET. THE TUNNEL OF NEGOUB AN ASSTRIAN INSCRIPTION. On my return to Mosul in the beginning of January, I found Ismail Pasha installed in the government. He received me with courtesy, offered no opposition to the continuation of my researches at Nimroud, and directed the irregular troops stationed at Selamiyah to afford me every assistance and protection. The change since my departure had been as sudden as great. A few conciliatory acts on the part of the new Governor, an order from the Porte for an inquiry into the sums unjustly levied by the late Pasha, with a view to their repayment, and a promise of a diminution of taxes, had so far encouraged those who had fled to the mountains and the desert, that the inhabitants of the villages were slowly returning to their homes; and even the Arab tribes, whose pasture grounds are in the districts of Mosul, were again pitching their tents on the banks of the Tigris. During my absence my agents had not been inactive. Several trenches had been opened in the great mound of Baa- sheikha; and fragments of sculpture and inscriptions, with entire pottery and inscribed bricks, had been discovere...