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 201
lt obliged to comply with theshaikhs request and to pitch his tent at Suq el-Afej, themarket place of the tribe and the residence ot hisnewly acquired patron. The conglomeration of filthy reedhuts which had received this high-sounding name wassituated at the southeast edge of the unhealthy marshes… … Afej Reed-Huts near Nuffar day bv means of the turrada^ a long narrow and shallowboat of the natives consisting of a framework of bulrushescovered with bitumen. The imposing ruins of Nuffar, with Babylon and Warkathe largest in Babylonia, are situated at the northeasternboundary of these marshes,…
