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    Nimrud (redirect from Nimroud)
    shown, both Athur and Nimroud. The evidence afforded by the examination of all the known ruins of Assyria, further identifies Nimroud with Nineveh. It would...
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    principal remains are those of Khorsabad, 16 km (10 mi) N.E. of Mosul; of Nimroud, supposed to be the ancient Calah; and of Kouyunjik, in all probability...
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    been found. Of the fortifications we know much more. In the north wall of Nimroud fifty-eight towers have been traced, and at Kouyunjik there are large remains...
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    from Abu Simbel, Egypt Dado from Biban el Moluk, Egypt Bronze vessel in Nimroud, Assyria Spandrels of arches, the Alhambra, Spain Soffitt of arch, the...
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    Bas-Reliefs from the Palace of Sennacherib and Bronzes from the Ruins of Nimroud. From drawings made on the spot during a second expedition to Assyria....
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    Nineveh: a narrative of the discoveries of Mr. Layard and M. Botta at Nimroud and Khorsabad, National Illustrated Library, 1851 A. Fuchs, Die Inschriften...
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  • discovered at Nimrud since it was inscribed by the excavators with "S.E. Palace Nimroud". The most well known excerpt of the text, including the reference to king...
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    1017/S0075426914000068. JSTOR 43286072. The British Museum (1886). Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon. London: British Museum. OCLC 15159756. The British Museum...
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    described in book 23 of Homer's Iliad: The embossed and engraved vessels from Nimroud afford many interesting illustrations of the progress made by the ancients...
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    the Journal of Sacred Literature in February 1855: The S.E. Palace at Nimroud has just yielded a large collection of beautiful ivories, relics of a throne...
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