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 470
form andsize, though somewhat different in color and texture. Itfollows, therefore, that the small mould employed by Ur-Gur for his crude flat bricks originated at a much earlierperiod, a result which is in entire accord with what welearned from our study of the interior mass of the zig-gurrat (p.… … DUBING 19111 CENTURY: ASSYIilA AND BABYLONIA 391 time of Sargon and Naram-Sin, who in all probability werethe original builders of the southeast enclosing wall. 2. Pre-Sargonic Ruins. According to the date furnishedby Nabonidos (comp, p. 273), from which we have no rea-son to deviate, the pavement…
