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

DURING 19 CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 125
men, animals, trees, and flowers, they constitute a most
valuable collection of representative specimens of ancient
metallurgy. A great many of the objects discovered are
doubtless of Assyrian origin; others may have formed part
Bronze Plate from Nimrud (Calah)
of the spoil of some conquered nation, or perhaps they were
made by foreign artists brought captive to the banks of the
Tigris.
Omitting an enumeration of the numerous fragments of
interesting sculptures and of other minor antiquities 1 excavated
at Nimrud during the second expedition, we mention
only the fact that in the southeast corner of the mound
1
E. g., a weight in the shape of a duck discovered in the northwest palace,
and bearing the inscription: "30 standard mana, palace of Erba-Marduk,
king of Babylon " — a king otherwise unknown.