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 500
of excavated fragments, the largest un-baked tablet was lo by 14 by 3 inches and the largest baked,16 bv 12 by 31^ inches. As most of the tablets discoveredwere unbaked or baked insufficiently, they not only arebadlv broken and chipped off everywhere, but they havesuffered exceedingly from the… … 416 EXPLOEAriOyS IN BIBLE LANDS inscribed surfaces. Frequently they crumbled to dustinimediatelv after their discovery or soon afterwards, ontheir wav from Nuffar to Constantinople. The oftenadvised baking of such tablets was not only useless, butproved repeatedly even most damaging, as it…
