Nineveh and Its Remains by Austen Henry Layard
Author:Austen Henry Layard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013-05-07T16:00:00+00:00
(132) A corruption of Sunedik, the plural from of Sanduk, a box. The place is so called by the Arabs from the peculiar from of the rocks near the river.
(133) In the desert, the vicinity of an encampment is generally marked by some well known to the members of the tribe. It would otherwise be very difficult to discover the tents, pitched, as they usually are, in some hollow or ravine to conceal them from hostile plundering parties.
(134) The lion Is frequently met with on the banks of the Tigris below Baghdad, rarely above. On the Euphrates it has been seen, I believe, almost as high as Bir, where the steamers of the first Euphrates expedition, under Colonel Chesney, were launchcd. In the Sinjar, and on the banks of the Kabour, they are frequently caught by the Arabs. They abound In Khuzistan, the ancient Susiana. I have frequently seen three or four together, and have hunted them, with the chiefs of the tribes inhabiting that proviace.
(135) Ainsworth’s Travels in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc., Vol. ii.
(136) This cup was taken out entire, but was unfortunately broken by the man who was employed to carry it to Mosul.
(137) The Arabs generally seek some elevated spot to bury their dead. The artificial mounds, abounding in Mesopotamia and Assyria, are usually chosen for the purpose, and there is scarcely one whose summit is not covered with them. On this account I frequently experienced great difficulty whilst excavating, and was compelled to leave unexamined one or two ruins, into which I wished to open trenches.
(138) They are of a coarse fossiliferous limestone.
(139) I found similar wells amongst the ruins on the bank of the rivers of Susiana. One having been opened on the river of Dizful, remains, similar to those described in the text, were found in it.
(140) Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. xi, p. 5.
(141) Chap. x., 11
(142) Lib. xxv., c. 8. Ammianus does not mention Hatra after, but before Ur; so that Mr. Ainsworth’s argument in favour of the identification of the latter city with Kalah Sherghat is scarcely tenable. (Journal of the Geog, Soc., vol. xi.)
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