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 186
universal dominion upon these barren walls.No wonder that of all the deserted pictures which Loftusever beheld, that of Warka incomparably surpassed them all.The ruins represent an enormous accumulation of longstretched mounds within an irregular circle, nearly sixmiles in circumference, defined by… … Tell Buwerive at Warka in height from tvventv to fifty feet, above which still largermounds rise. The principal and doubtless earliest edificesare found in the southwest section, and to this Lottus verynaturally directed his attention. Most conspicuous amongthem is a pyramidal mound, about a…
