The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-01-01
DAILY CRESCENT.

DR. LArARp's REsxA3caxS n NM ogo-In
the laat number Of the international ~ nn9 an
interesting article on the reseeee u ". i'ayato
in Nimroud. DR.. Lavard ~ u words OF the
J writer. summoned ihe kipssAnd people OF Nine
xeh ,hroosh thr6s ound ysars % give their tes-
rrv 49, he s1spsicsof our age, in support
,,rsss syiDe ssvsIadon.'s He has been eminently
III h Ms excavations and asrecently sent
Gnurasdcn, as an addlionto his former large COZ
don ofrelics Of snsiqnity in tho British Museum
sevsral very important pieces of sculp'urs. Among
them is a winged hnman-headed lionssnd winged
human headed bull. sculpture iDsfelief upon slabs,
~Of the latter, the nlustrated Lsndon News says: !
rIhis animal would sem to bear some analogy
- the Egyptian sphyM which represents the hsad
b. some to be lyrical Of the union Of intellec tual
powe5 with physical strength. The sphynx of the
Egyptians. however, is Invariably sitting, whereas
the Nimr0ud figure is always represented standing.
Ths apparent resemblance being so great, it ia al
le1st worthy of consideration whether the head on
the WINGED animals Of the Nnevites may not Be
Y NAT OF tho HING, and the mention Identical with
S.st Of the sPhYnx; though we think it more prob
able that there is.nC such connection, and that the
sintennDn Of The Ninevites was to iypify their God
under the common embiems Of intelligence.
strength and swiftness, as signifsd by the .addi-
tionaI attributes Of the Bird,
There is an inscription on the slab containing
4 the lion, but it has not yet been deciphered.
That most acute antquary, Major Rawlinson, in
an article in relation to the discoveries which are
now making N Asia, says:
eve. have every prospect Of most important
accessionsto our materials, for every letter get
from Ne touNtyies now being explored announces
fresh discoverieseof the utmost importance. In
: Lower Chaldea, Mr.. Lottus, the geologist to the
commission appointed to fix the boundaries be.
tween Turkey aud Persia, has visited many cities
which no European had ever reached before and
has every where found the most extraordinary re-
mains. At one place tSenkereh) he had come on
a pavement extending from half an acre to an acre
entrelyc0vered with writing, which was engraved
upon baked tiles, etc.
eat Wurka Tor Ur of the Chaldees) whence
Abraham came out, he Ind found innuInerable in
scrfptions; they were OF no great extent, but they
were eAess .lis interesting, giving many royal
names previ sly unknown. Wurka (Ur or Or.
ychoe,) seemed TO be holy city ioi the whole c,up
try, Tor miles upon miles, was nothing but a huge
metropolis. 1n.none Of the excavations of Assyria
had coffirs ever been found, bu, in this cty OF
Chaldea there were thousands upon thousands
he story Of Abraham's birth at Wurka did no,
originate with the Arabs as had sometimes been
conjectured, but with the Jews and ihs Ore ntais
had nnmberless fables about Abraham and MINI
roud
Mr. Layard in excavatng beneath the great
pyramid at Nimroud, had penetrated mass OF ma
sonfy, in which he had discousrsd the toni and
sstatVsg Sardanapalus accompanied by full an
44lsof The monarch's reign engraved on the walls
He bad also found tablets Of all Sorts all of then.
being historical; but the browning discovery he
~ VI 70 describe. The palace Of Nineveh, or
1npih, had evidently been DESTROYED by fire,
but ole potion of the building seemed to have
escaped it's influence; and Mr.. Layard, in excava.
ting IN this part of the palace, had found a larg.
room with what appeared to be the archives of the
empire ranged in successive tablets of terra Gotta
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