Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

112 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS
between these two, at the west edge of the mound, a smaller
palace of Adadnirari III. (812-783 B.C.); in the southwest
corner the palace of Ksarhaddon (681—668 b. c), who largely
employed older materials from the northwest and central
palaces ;
and in the southeast corner the insignificant remains
of a building of Ashuretililani (after 626 b. c), grandson of
Ksarhaddon and one of the last rulers of the Assyrian empire.
And in addition to these seven palaces at Calah, he had discovered
and partly excavated the large palace of Sennacherib
(705-681 B.C.) at Nineveh. Indeed, he had accomplished a
glorious work — and a munificent gift from the British nation
awaited him at home. "As a reward for my various services
and for mv discoveries, I was appointed an unpaid
attache of Her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople." !
It was not until the spring of 1848 that Lavard received
orders to proceed to his new post in Turkey. The halfyear
immediatelv preceding his departure for the Bosphorus
was principally devoted to the preparation of the narrative
2 of his first expedition, and to supervising the printing
of the illustrations of the monuments 3
and of the copies of
the inscriptions 4 recovered. These books, published during
his absence from England, created an extraordinary impression
throughout Europe, far beyond anything he could ever
have dreamed of.
It was in particular his popular narrative,
king, while the series of over one hundred slabs, representing battles and
sieges, and arranged as if ready for removal (comp. p. 108), formed part of
the decorations of the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III.
1
Comp. Austen H. Layard, " Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and
Babylonia," 2d ed., London, 1894, p. 426 (the closing words of the whole
book).
2
Layard, " Nineveh and its Remains, a Narrative of a First Expedition
to Nineveh," London, 1848.
3
Lavard, " The Monuments of Nineveh, from Drawings Made on the
Spot," series i., 100 plates, London, 1849.
4
Lavard, " Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments,"
98 plates, London, 185 1.