Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 121
Place, cannot be overrated. The mounds under which themonuments had been buried for twentv-five hundred yearsrepresented a whole fortified town, called after its founder, ^ Comp. the interesting story of these quarrels as told by Rassam, Asshur and the Land of Nimrod, New York, 1897, pp. 7, 12-27 5… … DURING lOTH CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 85 Sargon, the conqueror of Samaria (722 b. c), Dur-Sharrukenor Sargons Castle. The walls by which the town wasprotected were found intact at their bases. Thev constituteda rectangular parallelogram, or nearly a square, pointing withits tour corners to the…
