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 505
e temple mound. We are led to this period also by anexamination of the crude bricks, which measured 17 inches 420 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS square and about 4 inches thick. What was the nature ofthis ancient structure? It was a long, narrow cell, 5 feet9 inches long, i foot 7 inches wide, and i… … >**f the crumbling re-mains of a me-dium-sized adultand a broken vesselof coarse pottery. A corbelled archof crude bricks and a vaulted cellar ofburned bricks, thelatter about 12 by8 feet in length andbreadth, were dis-covered somewhereat a low level inthe same mounds.From general indi-cations,…
