. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . d our way by means of a map and com-pass. We examined the excavations at Abu Habba withsome care, but saw no evidence of the private diggingwhich we had suspected was being conducted there. Abu Habba represents the ruins of ancient Sippara,supposed to be the Sepharvaim of the Bible (2 Kings,xvii., 31). Hormuzd Rassams excavations at this pointproduced most remarkable results, the inscriptions foundexceeding in number and antiquity those f
. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . d our way by means of a map and com-pass. We examined the excavations at Abu Habba withsome care, but saw no evidence of the private diggingwhich we had suspected was being conducted there. Abu Habba represents the ruins of ancient Sippara,supposed to be the Sepharvaim of the Bible (2 Kings,xvii., 31). Hormuzd Rassams excavations at this pointproduced most remarkable results, the inscriptions foundexceeding in number and antiquity those found up tothat time at any other site in Babylonia. • His excava-tions, as we saw, were conducted in a very unscientificmanner, without much regard to buildings or strata; butcertainly he was successful in the one thing at which heaimed,—-the discovery of inscriptions. At the time of ourvisit the mounds were the private property of the our visit two campaigns of excavation have beenconducted there by the Turks, but without the successwhich attended Rassams work for the British are several mounds in the neighborhood of Abu. BAGHDAD AND BABYLON. 20/ Habba, the most important of which is Deir, and manylarge dry canals, including one triple one called was almost half-past eleven when we left Abu Habba,and, after watering our horses at the neighboring ziaret ofSeid Abdullah, we directed our course toward the con-spicuous mound of Hushm-edh-Dhib. This appeared tobe at the intersection of a network of canals, and I pre-sume that it represents the remains of the fortress andstation for the control and protection of those canals. Itwas one oclock when we reached the Hillah road, closeto the ruined khan of Bir. Some distance away wecould see the castle-like ruins of Sheyshubar. Threequarters of an hour later we crossed a large, dry, triplecanal, which from that point on to the end of our daysjourney ran parallel to our road ; and throughout the
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