 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1858 - 336 pagina’s
...led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...presiding divinities, standing before the sacred trees. " The ceilings above him were divided into square compartments, painted with flowers, or with the figures... | |
 | Rev. James Gardner - 1858 - 1042 pagina’s
...apartments, which again opened" into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of Home were processions of colossal figures — armed men...presiding divinities, standing before the sacred trees. The ceiling? above him were divided into square compartments, painted with flowers or with the figures... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 834 pagina’s
...led into "'her apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...with spoil, leading prisoners or bearing presents and ofierЬ-'-i to the gods. On the walls of others were portrayed the winged priests, or presiding divinities... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - 1859 - 322 pagina’s
...opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were precessions of colossal figures — armed men and eunuchs following...presiding divinities, standing before the sacred trees. The ceilings above him were divided into square compartments, painted with flowers or with the figures... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 856 pagina’s
...led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...king, warriors laden with spoil, leading prisoners or hearing presents and offerings to the gods. On the walls of others were portrayed the winged priests,... | |
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1862 - 580 pagina’s
...led into other apartments which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...presiding divinities, standing before the sacred trees. The ceilings were divided into square compartments, painted with flowers, or with the figures of animals.... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1862 - 610 pagina’s
...led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...presiding divinities, standing before the sacred trees." — LAYARD'S Nineveh, ii. 262, 263. The palace of Ahasuerus at Shushan was magnificently decorated... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 678 pagina’s
...deities, led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...with spoil, leading prisoners, or bearing presents arid offerings to the gods. On the walls of others were portrayed the winged priests, or presiding... | |
 | W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 424 pagina’s
...processions of colossal figures — armed men and eunuchs following the king, warriors laden with spoils leading prisoners or bearing presents and offerings...or presiding divinities, standing before the sacred tree. The ceilings above him were divided into square compartments, painted with flowers, or with the... | |
 | W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 426 pagina’s
...led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On the walls of some were processions of colossal...and eunuchs following the king, warriors laden with spoils leading prisoners or bearing presents and offerings to the gods. On the walls of others were... | |
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... genealogy, and achievements of the great king. Several doorways, formed by gigantic winged lions or bulls, or by the figures of guardian deities, led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. On... 
