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 508
a few were made of wood, which generally had crum-bled to dust. Nearly fifty representative urns and coffinswere saved and sent to Constantinople. One gray slipper-shaped coffin was decorated with a male figure with swordand short tunic over a long shirt, four times repeated in asmany panels.… … Blue Enamelled Slipper-Shaped Coffin with Conventional Female Figures coffins were decorated with a conventional female figure, apattern seemingly reserved for the burial of women. The northwest mound of the eastern half of the ruinsyielded a few unbaked tablets of the neo-Babylonian andAssyrian…
