 Awad advanced and asked for a present to celebrate the occasion, the Arabs withdrew the screen they had hastily constructed, and disclosed an enormous human head sculptured in full out of the alabaster of the country. They had uncovered the upper part...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 3581849Full view - About this book
 | James Baikie - Archaeology - 1923 - 552 pages
...seen me, as I approached, standing near a heap of baskets and cloaks. Whilst Awad advanced, and asked for a present to celebrate the occasion, the Arabs...the country. They had uncovered the upper part of a figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must belong... | |
 | James Baikie - Archaeology - 1923 - 562 pages
...seen me, as I approached, standing near a heap of baskets and cloaks. Whilst Awad advanced, and asked for a present to celebrate the occasion, the Arabs...the country. They had uncovered the upper part of a figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must belong... | |
 | James Baikie - Archaeology - 1927 - 404 pages
...seen me as I approached, standing near a heap of baskets and cloaks. Whilst Awad advanced, and asked for a present to celebrate the occasion, the Arabs...sculptured in full out of the alabaster of the country. ... I saw at once that the head must belong to a wingedlion or bull, similar to those of Khorsabad... | |
 | David Pinault - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 284 pages
...for they have found Nimrod himself . . . On reaching the ruins I descended into the new trench . . . The Arabs withdrew the screen they had hastily constructed,...the country. They had uncovered the upper part of the figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must... | |
 | Robert Silverberg - Social Science - 1997 - 420 pages
...seen me, as I approached, standing near a heap of baskets and cloaks. Whilst Awad advanced, and asked for a present to celebrate the occasion, the Arabs...the country. They had uncovered the upper part of the figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must... | |
 | M. Chahin - Armenia - 2001 - 356 pages
...of baskets and cloaks, \Vhilst Awad [Layard s servant] advanced and asked for a present to celehrate the occasion, the Arabs withdrew the screen they had...of the country. They had uncovered the upper part ot a figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1849 - 780 pages
...approached, standingnear a heap of baskets nnd cloaks. Whilst Awsd advanced and asked for a presentto celebrate the occasion, the Arabs withdrew the screen...the country. They had uncovered the upper part of ะป ligure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must belong... | |
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