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 397
s and on two door-sockets found in situ, it had been dedicated to Bel himselfabout 2600 B. c. A pair of clasped hands from a doleritestatue similar to those excavated at Tello, a number of in-scribed fragments of bas-reliefs, and an archaic mortar dec- 1 As Thureau-Dangin has recently shown that… … DURING lOTii CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 337 orated with an eagle and a snake evidently fighting witheach other were taken from the debris around it, bearingwitness to the elaborate manner in which the ancient Baby-lonians embellished their temples. As we shall have tosay a few words about the…
