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 402
de of AbijAdhem were as ancient as Dr. Peters supposes it to be, and ^ Except the fragment of a statue in dolerite (a woman holding a lamb,comp. Peters, /. c, vol. ii, p. 184), which belonged to the third pre-Christian millennium. Being out of its original place, it was discovered in aJewish house… … DURING lOi CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 341 not, rather, Parthian, as everything hidicates, why did henot make the columns of Nippur, which are precisely likethem, precisely as old ? Apparently because the discov-ery of Cassite tablets outside the large complex did notallow this. But are we on…
