# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1911_S507
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. 507

countrv. and none of them exver heard of Ha palace underground.
But lo: here comes à Frank . e., a European], aud he walks up
to the verv palace. and makes a 3iné here, and maäakes aà line there.
Here. sus he, is the palace; tliere, Says he, is the gate; aud he shows
us What has been all our liveés beneath our féet, vithout our having
known ansthing about it. Wonderrul! wonderful! Is it by books,
is it be magic, is it be vour propheéts, that vou havé learned these
things? Speak, O Bey; tell me the secret of wisdom “'1)

Laßt uns jetzt unter der Führung Lahards die bloßgelegten Räume
des Nordwestpalastes in Nimroud durcheilen und besichtigen. We de—
scend into the principal trench be a flight of steps rudely cut into
the carth near thée wéstern face of the mound. ... We descend about
twente féet and suddenly find ourselves between a pair of colossa!
lions, winged and human-cheaded, forming a portal. I have alréady
described my feéelines Wwhen gazing for the first timè on these majestie
figures. ... In the subteérranéan labsrinth all is bustlé and con-
frusion. Arahs aré rumning about in différent directions, some
bearing baskets 0f carth, others carrsing theé water-jars to their
companions. The wild strains of Kurdisb music may be heard
ccasionally issuing from somé distant part of the ruins, and if.
they areé caught by the parties at work, the Arabhs join their voices
in chorus, raise the War-ery, and labor with renewed onergy. Leaving
bebhind us a small chambér, we issue from between the winged lions,
and enter the remains of the principal hall. On both sides of us
are sculpturéed, gigantic, winged figurés; some with the heads of
engles, others entirély human, and carrying mysterious symbols in
their hands. To the left is another portal, also formed by winged
lions. One of them, however, has fallen across the entrance, and
there is just room to reep beneath it. Beyond ethis portal is a winged
figure and two slabs with basreliefs. Further on there are no traces
of wall ... but only a solid structure built of unbaked elay. The
slabs of alabaster have fallen from their original position, and we
tread in the midst of ͤaà maze of basreliefs, representing chariots,
horsemen, battles, and sieges. Having walked about one hundred
keet among theése scattéered monuments of ancient historv and art,
We reach another doorway formed by gigantie winged bulls in vellow
limestone. One is entire; but its companion has fallen, and is
broken into several piéces — the great human head is at our feet.
We pass on without entering that part of the building into which
this portal leads. Beyond it we see another winged figure, holding
a graceful flower in its hand. Adjoining this we find eight fine
basreliefs. There is the king, hunting, and triumphing over, the
lon and the bull; and the siege of a castle with the battering rarn.
We have now reached the end of the hall, and fnd before us an

14) Vineveh and Its Remains, vol. II, p. 70 sg.