id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044042302588 Layard, Austen Henry Nineveh and its remains : with an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers, and an enquiry into the manners and arts fo the ancient Assyrians by Austen Henry Layard v.2 (1854) 1854 .txt text/plain 120852 9241 77 great delicacy, standing figures, with one hand elevated, and holding in the other a stem or staff, surmounted by an ornament resembling the Egyptian to determine the forms and values of the Assyrian numerals by an examination of the inscriptions of Van. f This deity, under the name of Thoth, or Taut, was the Egyptian god traced to a foreign people, only one form of character has been discovered, and it so closely resembles the cursive of Assyria, that there appears to be But at the time he made the distinction he was unacquainted with the earliest monuments of Nimroud, and had only examined inscriptions from Khorsabad, and a fragment from Nimroud both belonging to the same period. Assyrian origin is generally admitted, and whose appearance on the monuments of Egypt affords important evidence in an inquiry into the date of the ./cache/hvd.32044042302588.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044042302588.txt