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A History of Art in Chald.^a and Assyria. [85 1 he was again busy at Nimroud ; he cleared some more rooms in the great palace on the Kouyundjik mound, and he undertook some explorations on the sites of several Chaldsean cities. The A rbela e 7 » * io* Fjg. i. — Map of Nineveh and its neighbourhood ; from Oppert. objects he collected form the true foundation of the Assyrian collection in the British Museum, which is, at present, by far the richest in existence.
