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Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lips; ^other prisoners are being flayed alive; the eyes of some are beingbored out with the point of a spear; and still others are havingtheir tongues torn out. An inscription by Asshur-nasir-pal, found in one of the palacesat Nimrud, runs as follows : Their men, young and old, I tookprisoners. Of some I cut off the feet and hands; of others I cutoff the noses, ears, and lips ; of the young mens ears I made a 1 See 2 Chron. xxxiii. 10-13 (Revised Version). 54 ASSYRIA. heap; of the old mens heads I built a tower. I exposed theirheads as a trophy in front of their city. The male children andthe female children I burned in the flames. Royal Sports. — The Assyrian king gloried in being, like thegreat Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. The monu-ments are covered with sculptures that represent the king engagedin the favorite royal sport. Asshur-izer-pal had at Nineveh a men-agerie, or hunting-park, filled with various animals, many of whichwere sent him as tribute by vassal princes.
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LION HUNT. (From Nineveh.) Remains of Assyrian Cities. — Enormous grass-grown mounds,enclosed by crumbled ramparts, alone mark the sites of the greatcities of the Assyrian kings. The character of the remains arisesfrom the nature of the building material. City walls, palaces, andtemples were constructed chiefly of sun-dried bricks, so that thegeneration that raised them had scarcely passed away before theybegan to sink down into heaps of rubbish. The rains of manycenturies have beaten down and deeply furrowed these mounds,while the grass has crept over them and made green alike thepalaces of the kings and the temples of the gods.^ 1 Lying upon the left bank of the Upper Tigris ai?e two enormous moundssurrounded by heavy earthen ramparts, about eight miles in circuit. This isthe site of ancient Nineveh, the immense enclosing ridges being the ruined citywalls. These ramparts are still, in their crumbled condition, about fifty feet PALACE-MOUNDS AND PALACES. 55 Palace-Mounds and Palace

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