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 68
f Rich in the fall of 1821, hisOriental antiquities, coins, and an extraordinary collection ofeight hundred manuscripts ^ w^ere purchased by the English ropes fastened close together to a frame of rough logs. On one part ot thisvery ancient means of navigation a kind of hut covered with matting… … Kelek or Native Raft composed of Goat-Skins 36 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS Parliament for the use of the British Museum. The frag-ments of clav and stone which he had gathered so scrupu-lously from Babylonian and Assyrian ruins filled a compara-tively small space, and for the greater part at…
