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 216
inscribed upon these clay cyl-inders in the corners of the stage-tower. * After him Mount Sinai is called, the name meaning Sacred to Sin.*^ Comp. Loftus, /. r., p. 128. DURING lOit CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 175 The discovery of these documents was of the greatestimportance for Biblical… … Ruins ot the Tt-mple ot Sin at Muqavyar his father as co-regent, defeated by Cyrus near Opis, andmurdered soon after the conquest of Babylon. In a small hill close to the southeast corner of the largeruin Taylor unearthed a regular house built of large inscribedbricks upon a platform of sun-dried…
