The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-08-04
From the National Intelligencer.
NineVeh.

cries made, and still in progress. on tht
site Of the ancient Nineveh and its neigh
borhood Is Of the porioundesi interest il
a religious, and even in merely histori
cal, point of view. The English ant
French explorers are still at work, con
tending with friendly rivalry which sbal
exhume the greatest and most valuable
prizes. We find notice Of their pro.
ceedings during the past5 fear in the Re.
port Of the Council, read at the late an.
niversary meeting of the Asa,ic Society
of London:
The French excavations have revealed
many new vauIted passages, colon.
nades, and chambers full of relics oil
various kinds. which have been sent to
Paris, and constitute the nucleus of an
Assyrian museum now forming in that ci-
ty. The collection embraces cylinders,
tiles, ornaments, and vessels of beautiful
workmanshlp in marble, agate, and car.
Mellon. Thc museum is 10 be adorned,
also, with Photographic views of the dis.
coveries, taken upon the spot, "in many
cases." says the Athen@um, colored
with the actual pigments found at the
same time, among which splendid cake
of ultramarine is recorded as big as a
pigeons egg" This is a curious cir.
cumstance. reminding us Of the drawings
made by Chantrey, the sculptor, with Sc
pia from the fossil ink.bag OF antediluvian
curtle'fs furnished him BY DR.. Buckland,
the geologist. Afh
The AthenRum gives the following &C.
count Of the English explorations, which
is chiefly interesting from the full notice
presented Of the researches of Col. Raw.
llnson, the most learned and able Of liv.
ing archeologists, who has devoted him.
self with so much ardor to the elucidation
of biblical history;
The labors Of our countrymen have
also been attended with great success
beautiful gold ornaments, cylinders, vases
of sculptured basall, &c. have been dug
up al Sheriff Khan. Tne letters of Col.
RawlinSon from time TO time have kept
the society informed of his discoveries.
In one letter he gives an account of
bronze lion, discovered at Nebbi Yunus,
bearing the Inscription 'Esarhaddon.
king Of kings. conqueror OF Misr and
Cush,' EGYPT and Ethiopia.) In anolh-
er he enclosed copy of an inscription
in Semitic alphabet, being one of nu.
merous collection of inscriptions upon
sheet lead, packed in sepulchral jars, dis.
covered at place called Abushudhr.-
With third he communicated list of
the Babylonian months, found on a slab,
by The aid OF which the succession of
events recorded in the inscription of
Bisitun may be approximately determin.
ed. In the last letter received he states
that he had prepared, with great pains,
full account of his recent laborS and dis.
coverieS, for the purpose of being read al
this meeting; but the mail bv which il
had been dispatched had been plundered
by the Auezen Arabs, and il was said that
they were wearing the unknown uniform
characters as amulets. Col. Raw linson
had at length received the long.expected
cylinders from Kiah Shergat, a splendid
document, consisting OF SEQ lines of wri.
ting, which contains the bulletins OF Ii
glath Pileser |, and is al least 100 years
older than any other document yet dis.
covered. He says that he cannot attempt
to give even resume of the inscription
but it shows that the king warred princi.
pally in Armenia, Cappadocia, Pontus
and the shores ofthe Euxine, and that he
crossed the Kurdish mountains to the
east and the Euphrales to the west. He
overran Northern Syria and Cilicia, but
did not attempt to penetrate towards Pal.
estne. Having fairly entered upon
period anterior to the glories of Nineveh
and Calah, Col. Rawhnson says he does
not despair Of ascending up to the insli.
tuition of the monarchy. The writing of
this inscription of Tiglath Pleser is bet
ter, the language more polished, and the
grammatical distinctions more nicely
marked than in later legends. The
capital city Assur is, OF course, the Al.
lasor of Genesis, of which Arioch was
king, and the Tel.Assar of the Targums,
which is used for the Mosaic Resen.-
He considers site Of Nineveh to be de.
fixed at Nebbi Yuns, Calahai
and Resen at Kilah Shergat.--
A slab Of Sennacherip's recently found
at Nebb Yunus is OF much interest. 1t
contains an account of two campaigns,
ater apparently than those Chrohicled in
he ahnals--ths one against Merodach
and tie other against the con.
ederaied kings Of the East, among whom
) ash'|f ne oersians, whose name is
ln lost. Ii
tf6Nen obelisk from MIN.
-ud AA slfeached Col. Rawlinson,
,ut be ~ IS much from il. as. judging
rom the description, il is not a duplicate
,f The old one. The writer turned lastly
o his real treasure.house Of discovery.
he debris, in fact. Of the Royal Library. !
# which Lsyard's collection formed the
upper and better preserved part. Here
le has found fragments Of alphabets. syl
abria, and explanations Of ideogrephic
iigns also, table Of notation, with the
phonetic readings Of the signs, showing
hat the Assyrians counted BY si&ties, in
exact agreement with the sossos, saoos,
Ind neros of Berossus. The numbers are
Semitic. There are also elab-
orale disst ctions Of the Pantheon, geo. {
graphical dissertations explaining the
debgraphs Tor countries. and cities, de.
their products and describing