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 646
t the sign used in Babylonian writing forJ brick originally represents a section of such a well in which the bricks are laid in herring-bone fashion.The Sumerian stratum extending from the virgin soil to a point about five to ten feet above the ancient plain level is ■^ Sometimes two and even four… … Section of a Pre-Sargonic Well. Bricks laid inHerring-bone Fashion
