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 455
bt that it goes backto Ashurbanapal, whose inscribed bricks, sometimes green(originally blue) enamelled on the edges, were repeatedlyfound near its upper surface. As Havnes reports to have seenno trace of buildings of any sort resting upon the pave-ment, this section of the court seems to have been… … DURING lOTii CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 377 the first. If ever it covered the entire court/ only frac-tional parts of it had been preserved, so that the illustrationfacing this page does not even indicate its former existence.The layer of earth enclosed between the upper and thelower pavements…
