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 351
W.Frazier, C. C. Harrison, Wm. Pepper, and Stuart Wood spent ^6500 extrafor the purchase of these collections, including a number of Palmyrene bustsobtained by Dr. Peters in the following year, and the valuable plaster repro-ductions of the ruins of NufFar, which were afterwards prepared under… … DURING 19TH CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 303 regarding themselves as perfectly safe in the midst of theirswamps and mud castles, the so-called meftuls} Peters,Harper, and Bedry Bey, our Turkish commissioner, tookthis circuitous route by way of Diwaniye, to pay theirrespects to the local governor…
