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 640
ly gliding boats, interruptedthe impressive stillness of that beautiful Babylonian night.At a place nearly opposite the two ruins we halted.Stretched on the ground or in the bottom of our boatswe awaited the first rays of the sun that we might proceedwith our archaeological mission. ^ The only… … DURING 19^ CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 539 As the results of this exploration tour will be publishedin another place, I confine myself to a general statement.Both ruins were well worth the pains we had taken in exam-ining and surveying them. Abu Hatab, considerably smallerthan Fara, is also the…