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 498
l bv the Semitic Babylo-nians, and the river Nile bv the Arabic population oflater times. In some parts of Southern Babylonia the bedof the canal was wider than that of the present Euphratesbelow Hilla, while its average depth at Nippur measuredfrom fifteen to twenty feet. Wherever Havnes drove his… … Oblong Weight in HematiteFifteen (^shekels) examination of all the portable antiquities excavated thereled in every case to the same result, that this long-stretchedmound represents the business quarter of ancient Nippur, 414 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS and conceals the large mercantile houses, the…
