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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria

CHAPTER VI
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A road leads straight up to this royal tablet, and in this road within a little distance of the king stands an altar.

The temple occupies the top of a mound, which is covered with trees of two different kinds, and watered by rivulets.

On the right is a "hanging garden," artificially elevated to the level of the temple by means of masonry supported on an arcade, the arch here used being not the round arch but a pointed one.No.VI.

[PLATE L.] is unfortunately very imperfect, the entire upper portion having been lost.

Even, however, in its present mutilated state it represents by far the most magnificent building that has yet been found upon the bas-reliefs.


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