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 510
he present writer as the probable siteof the temple library) was not examined by the explorerduring the three years which he passed almost withoutinterruption at Nuffar. It was stated above (p. 360) that in the summer of 1895Haynes spent the morning hours of two weeks at the long,narrow ridge… … 32 DURING lOTii CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 425 Ur-Gurs material. He unearthed great numbers of terra-cotta cones, sometimes colored red or black at their roundbases, and fragments of water spouts in the debris thathad gathered at the bottom of the wall. The formerwere either small and solid or…
