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 481
the lowest level of anv of the baked brick con-structions hitherto excavated at NufFar. It contained bricks of the size i 2 by 5 7/^by 2i^ inches, and others measuring only 8^ by 4^ by 2 inches, while atthe foundation of the northeast city gate of Nippur the two kinds of bricksmarked two… … The Earliest Babylonian Arch known. About 4000 b. c. Seen from the inside of a -vaulted tunnel. Obserie the T-shaped brick construction at its opening,and a portion of the tivo clay pipes imbedded in its bottom. DURING 19TH CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 399 percolating the soil behind and above…
