Show 1 new hew at p nineveh I 1 the london Asay assyrian tian exely a tian society have just issued a most satisfactory report odthe of the pro grasa of their agent agen t ai at Bab ylona I 1 I 1 in addition to the discoveries mentioned by mr lofts the committee have to announce that a I 1 now pa palace lacellas has been found at nineveh in the mound of kou of which colonel zahlia 1 I 1 son reports in the following terms A mi arnot 3 t bea biral palace loal aoe has ak recently been discovered in nineveh 1 i belong belonging lg to the son of evar ear haddon TIA tha sculpting es tire are infinitely superior in ill variety of subject in artistic ar treatment and in skill and delicacy of execution to every thing which lias has beon been before found elwe palace allois a so I 1 I 1 of great extent conta containing lhing perhaps anve hundred r e d acu sculptured fl i digs j and the marble is generally in a good state of preservation I 1 I 1 I 1 in ili another leffet be adds tile tha new nev palace ashy far the most magnificent tiling thing yet discovered in Assy assyria rii each hill boorn toom arid and pass passage ige is devot devoted bol to a separate arate tho the series is complete and the sculpture well preserved a as not is of extra I 1 ordinary orl or unary inary interest in fac t the variety of subjects artistic grouping and treat treatment ineat high relief richness n e ss of detail and delicacy of execution entitle the palace to be reckoned the che doets of assy assyrian rian art some of tile the pavement slabs are in list os t superb and th fh aili animals mals trens treas an and d awers wera even ii the ilie human figures are more natural and nd free from conventionalities than in ili any or of tile I 1 earlier palaces therease there Ther eare are between two and three hundred sculptured slabs already uncovered and not above e oue ond h hilf alf or of the p illee is yet yei explored 1 I 1 I 1 colossal butis and lions there are none but bat monsters centaurs etc there are I 1 as many as you lib please aso at one I 1 of the entrances there are a pair of round I 1 ornar ornamental pedestals which certainly cert airily supported 63 cow columns but as there are no remains or sue suan I 1 i I 1 colu mn tha thay V man have been formed I 1 suppose of wood I 1 on one ona slab blab there aliece was a city with a doable wall ind and within a temple faced with a row of columns supported on the ahe back of annuals on oil an another thordis there is a mound on oil the top of bf which is a castle andio and to give more extent to tile the upper platform is run out from the top of tile the sharp panted p buted arches stretching tra down the side iffe of the mound another private letter from a gentleman jesi aiesi iesi ding at speaks in ili the sr same e terms of praise of thise these new disco discoveries au and d adds some further particulars regarding the subjects of the ros ras tn ill speaking of the the iia palace or temple alluded to above he says I 1 it represents very minutely the exterior architecture the second story is built with 11 pil il lars have their buses bases ou on the of lions lion and enman headed WIS bulls with their heads like lika those found at he also alo mentions representation of a bridge with three pointed arches and other particulars illustrative of the architecture of the period one 0 lie of 0 nwe alte best executed slabs represents tah a lion il 10 shunt hunt I 1 in ili this scene he says saya the king is the principal I 1 huntsman and is in the art act of striking a lance nto into i a lion springing upon his chariot white while seyen seven sei I 1 others ot liers already pierced by many arrows some of which are dead others dying are most beautifully beau cifu I 1 aj and naturally portrayed po strayed upon the slabs on a nother another sli slab ab they have a pirk park with an open gate through i which is seen the king hu hunting lions executed on oil a very minute acile sc aleas ds if thy they intended it at a olaf distance ance he concludes by si saying that thi the art displayed in the treatment of both men and animals in it these bas belieff relie re lieff fis surpasses su passes everything discovered in the rains of assyria 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 the committee take this opportunity of calling alling the attention of subscribers to tile progress lately i madal maa in the deciphering of the inscriptions which comprise the identification of all the aslyn assyrian i an kings mentioned in the bible extending the chronology of assyria to a period of about two thousand years before christ an almost perfect series of the names of the ancient kings of assyria has also been discovered and numerous illustrations trat ions of the sacred scriptures of the highest I 1 interest |