The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . as-reliefs. Theyconsist almost entirely of a single series, discoveredby Mr. Layard in a chamber of the North-WestPalace at Nimrud, in the near vicinity of slabs onwhich was engraved the name of Sargon.^ Themost remarkable point connected with them is thethoroughly Egyptian character of the greater num-ber, which, at first sight, have almost the appearanceof being importations from the valley of the Nile.Egyptian profiles, head-dresses, fashions
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The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . as-reliefs. Theyconsist almost entirely of a single series, discoveredby Mr. Layard in a chamber of the North-WestPalace at Nimrud, in the near vicinity of slabs onwhich was engraved the name of Sargon.^ Themost remarkable point connected with them is thethoroughly Egyptian character of the greater num-ber, which, at first sight, have almost the appearanceof being importations from the valley of the Nile.Egyptian profiles, head-dresses, fashions of dressing thehair, ornaments, attitudes, meet us at every turn; while ^ Nineveh and Babylon, p. 196, • Nineveh and its Remains, vol.ii. pp. 8-10 and p. 205. For other discoveries of ivory objects, seeNineveh and Babylon, pp. 179, 195, and 362. Chap. VI. IVORIES. 463 Bometimes we find the representations of Egyptiangods, and in two cases hieroglyphics within car-touches (see overleaf). A few specimens only are of adistinctly Assyrian type, as the subjoined frag-ment, figured by Mr.Layard, ^ and one ortwo others, in whichthe guilloche border ap-. Fragment of ivory panel, from Kimrud. pears.^ These carvingsare usually mere low reliefs, occupying small panelsor tablets, which were mortised or glued to the wood-work of furniture. They were sometimes inlaid inparts witli blue glass, or with blue and green pastes letinto tlie ivory, and at the same time decorated withgilding. Now and then the relief is tolerably high, and piesents fragments of forms which seem to have