A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... ASSYRIAN GALLERIES . Kouyunjik Gallery ( Bas - reliefs from the Palace of Sennacherib and Assur- banipal Seals , Engraved Stones , Cylinders , and Gems - Terracotta Figures , Weights , Necklaces - Bronze Fetters . Swords , & c . - Terra ...
... ASSYRIAN GALLERIES . Kouyunjik Gallery ( Bas - reliefs from the Palace of Sennacherib and Assur- banipal Seals , Engraved Stones , Cylinders , and Gems - Terracotta Figures , Weights , Necklaces - Bronze Fetters . Swords , & c . - Terra ...
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... Assyria and Babylonia , and presented by the Proprietors of The Daily Telegraph ) Assyrian Side - Room ( Stele with bas - relief of Samsivul - Inscribed stones from Babylon - Bricks with royal names - Inscribed terracotta cylin- ders ...
... Assyria and Babylonia , and presented by the Proprietors of The Daily Telegraph ) Assyrian Side - Room ( Stele with bas - relief of Samsivul - Inscribed stones from Babylon - Bricks with royal names - Inscribed terracotta cylin- ders ...
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... Assyria and other countries have left available for that purpose . The second series , placed in a suite of rooms on ... Assyrian , to those of Egypt . The arrangement of the four principal series of sculptures may be stated generally as ...
... Assyria and other countries have left available for that purpose . The second series , placed in a suite of rooms on ... Assyrian , to those of Egypt . The arrangement of the four principal series of sculptures may be stated generally as ...
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... Assyrian , and the Egyptian , form , approximately , three parallel lines , running North and South , at right angles to the Roman . To the left of the Hall , on entering the building , is the ROMAN GALLERY . On the South side , under ...
... Assyrian , and the Egyptian , form , approximately , three parallel lines , running North and South , at right angles to the Roman . To the left of the Hall , on entering the building , is the ROMAN GALLERY . On the South side , under ...
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... low relief representing banquets , hunting scenes , and dancers , in an archaic style , bearing some resemblance to Assyrian sculptures . C. T. NEWTON . The East side of the Hellenic Room room opens into FLOOR . ] 91 HELLENIC ROOM .
... low relief representing banquets , hunting scenes , and dancers , in an archaic style , bearing some resemblance to Assyrian sculptures . C. T. NEWTON . The East side of the Hellenic Room room opens into FLOOR . ] 91 HELLENIC ROOM .
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Page 25 - Hudson, from an original by Richardson. Oliver Cromwell, by Walker (bequeathed, 1784, by Sir Robert Rich, Bart., to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Rich, Esq., then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliament Army, it was presented by Cromwell himself). Mary Davis, an inhabitant of Great Saughall in Cheshire, taken 1668, "cetatis 74...
Page 144 - Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58. 1863, fol. £1 5*.
Page 95 - Part of a series of sculptures which originally lined the two walls of a long narrow gallery, leading, by an inclined plane, from Kouyunjik towards the Tigris.
Page 96 - The next six (Nos. 51-56) formed originally part of a series illustrating the architectural works of that king, including, probably, the construction of the very edifice from which the slabs were obtained. On Nos. 51 and 52 is seen the conveyance of a colossal human-headed bull, lying sideways on a sledge, which is propelled, over wooden rollers, partly by ropes in front, partly by a lever behind. On one side...
Page 83 - Greeks heroon, and so greatly excelled all other sepulchral monuments in size, beauty of design, and richness of decoration, that it was reckoned one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and the name Mausoleum came to be applied to all similar monuments.
Page 138 - Pelion, and Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys.