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 390
raordinaryamount of dirt and debrisaccumulated during theperiod of occupancy ofthe rooms, and from thedifferent styles of art ex-hibited by the antiquitiesdiscovered in them, it be-came evident that theselatest constructions must have been inhabited for several 1 Comp. e. g., the central head of… … Lamp in Brown Enamelled Terra-cotta From a room of the latest temple construction 332 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS hundred years. A similar result was obtained by an exam-ination of the stage-tower. It was observed that the zig-gurrat of the cruciform shape above referred to, which con-sisted only…
