A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . putation. And if they merely formed a garden-court, as Dr. Koldewey inclines to believe, it is difficultto explain the adjectives /cyoe/xacrros and pensiUs. Forthe subterranean vaults would have been completelyout of sight, and, even when known to be below the This objection seems to me to outweigh any correspondence in detailsbetween the architectural structure of the Vaulted Building and the texts ofCurtius Rufus or Diodorus. £ 50 HISTORY OF BABYLON pavement-level, were not such as to excite wonder orto sugf^e
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . putation. And if they merely formed a garden-court, as Dr. Koldewey inclines to believe, it is difficultto explain the adjectives /cyoe/xacrros and pensiUs. Forthe subterranean vaults would have been completelyout of sight, and, even when known to be below the This objection seems to me to outweigh any correspondence in detailsbetween the architectural structure of the Vaulted Building and the texts ofCurtius Rufus or Diodorus. £ 50 HISTORY OF BABYLON pavement-level, were not such as to excite wonder orto sugf^est the idea of suspension in the air. One can-not help suspecting that the vaulted building mayreally, after all, be nothing more than the palace-granary, and the triple well one of the main water-supplies for domestic use. We may, at least for thepresent, be permitted to hope that a more convincingsite for the gardens will be found in the Central Citadelafter further excavation. In the autumn of 1901 the writer spent some timein Babylon, stopping with Dr. Koldewey in the sub-.
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