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 228
t square, and probably twenty-six feet high. As the successive stages rose to the heightof about one hundred and sixty feet, thev gradually receded,becoming smaller and smaller, the seventh stage being occu-pied by the richly decorated shrine of the god Nabu (Nebo), The Guardian of Heaven and… … ■fi -^ H a DURING 19TH CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 187 TEMPORARY REVIVAL OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN ASSYRIAN EXCAVATIONS A large amount of cuneiform material had been graduallystored in the halls of the Louvre and of the British Museumtowards the middle of the last century. Before other fundswere…
