The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . lel-Ede. Fig 2. Palms. CH. CHIEF CITIES. 13 from the level of the plain to a central mound, the highestpoint of which attains an elevation of seventy feet above theplain itself, and is distinctly visible from a distance of fifteenmiles.* The material used consists of the ordinary sun-driedand baked bricks; and the basement platforms bear the inscrip-tions of the same king who appears to have oeen the
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . lel-Ede. Fig 2. Palms. CH. CHIEF CITIES. 13 from the level of the plain to a central mound, the highestpoint of which attains an elevation of seventy feet above theplain itself, and is distinctly visible from a distance of fifteenmiles.* The material used consists of the ordinary sun-driedand baked bricks; and the basement platforms bear the inscrip-tions of the same king who appears to have oeen the originalfounder of the chief buildings at Ur or Mugheir. Fifteen miles from Larsa, in a direction a little north of west,and on the same side of the river, are iiiins considerably moreextensive than those of either Ur or Larea, to which the na-tives apply the name of Warka, which is no dovibt a corrup-tion of the original appellation. [PI. II. ] The Erech, or Orech,*^of the Hebrews, which appears as Huruk in the cuneiform geo-graphical lists, became known to the Greeks as Orchoe; *^ andthis appellation, probably continuing in use to the time of theArab conquest, was then corrupted into Urka or Warka,
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