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Constantinople

only no one had ever thought of it before! When once it was conceived, then it seemed very simple. I was too short a time in this great structure to [grow] up to its magnificence or appreciate truly its wonder.

Thence we went to the Museum - one of the most remarkable collection of antiquities in the world - the most remarkable probably from Asia Minor.

There is the famous cylinder of [Sennocherib]. There are the sarcophagi from Sidon. One of them is called Alexander's tomb. Its frieze of sculpturing are most marvelous. The action of the horses and men is wonderful. Origi-
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nally all such sculptures were colored. Evidences of the original coloring still appear on one end of the monument. There are other very remarkable sarcophagi.

Babylonian antiquities are richly represented. There is a life-size figure of a god with the two rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates. In one hand he holds an inflorescence of a date with which he is fertilizing the date foliage. The whole symbolizes fertility.

In another stone panel we have several figures in a river, riding in a "canoe", made of reeds bound together.

There are many tons of ancient tablets. One of these represents an order by the King of
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