Word: khorsabad
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...show off, among other things, the heroic statues of Pierre Puget and a pair of rearing horses carved in Carrara marble by Guillaume Coustou for Louis XIV. The third courtyard, designed by American architect Stephen Rustow, evokes the palace of the Assyrian King Sargon II (8th century B.C.) at Khorsabad and features two 13-ft.-high winged bulls with human heads...
Away with Coffins. Spiraling ramps are not new in architecture. Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...
...projected Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs pictured in your May 23 issue: it may seem as "modern as ... aircraft" to its architects, but students of archaeology will find it a bit oldfashioned. The general layout recalls Khorsabad, which the Assyrian Sargon dedicated in 706 B.C., and Persepolis, which Darius I founded two centuries later. There also, low, oblong buildings with enclosed courts were grouped in the shadow of an imposing terrace topped by a temple, a throne room and a palace, or, in our parlance, a chapel, an administration building and a social hall...
...hand, bearing four columns of marks resembling quail tracks. To learned eyes these cuneiform inscriptions revealed the names and dates of 95 Assyrian kings. Staffmember Gordon Loud of the Iraq expedition turned up the tablet beneath rubbish in the palace of Sennacherib's father, Sargon II, at Khorsabad. Sargon and Sennacherib ruled Assyria seven centuries before Christ. Names of only a few earlier monarchs were known, possibly because Sennacherib moved the records to Ninevah when he abandoned the Khorsabad palace after his father's death. The tablet he neglected to take along now furnishes the names...
...stone bull-and another one just like it-placed at the gates of his palace 2,600 years ago to celebrate his conquests and, superstitiously, to ward off evil spirits. Dr. Breasted's sharp-bearded little colleague, Dr. Edward Chiera, dug up both bulls two years ago at Khorsabad on the upper Tigris. The Iraq Government kept one but after much sweating & swearing, an expensive ocean carry, a perilous rail trip, Dr. Chiera got his bull to Chicago. He kept it out on a football field under tarpaulins until the new building was ready. Now, until Chicago decays...