. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . wo feet above the courtyard. The other hutsw^ere flush with the mud of the court, which was abun-dant and very nasty. To the south of Jebrin a few columns were visibleabove the ground; those on the inner side of an inferiorsort of marble, those on the outer of basalt. There werelarge numbers of basalt troughs about the village, andworked blocks of basalt had been utilized by the nativesin building their cones and the walls of their courty
. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . wo feet above the courtyard. The other hutsw^ere flush with the mud of the court, which was abun-dant and very nasty. To the south of Jebrin a few columns were visibleabove the ground; those on the inner side of an inferiorsort of marble, those on the outer of basalt. There werelarge numbers of basalt troughs about the village, andworked blocks of basalt had been utilized by the nativesin building their cones and the walls of their observed three or four interesting pieces, including anold door, made entirely of basalt,—keyhole, bolt holder,and all. This region is full of remains scattered abouteverywhere; those which are visible on the surface, so faras Tobserved, all belonging to the late Greek or Byzantineperiod. Tels were to be seen on all sides. About half an hour west of Jebrin, and six miles south-east of Aleppo, is the similar cone village of Nirab. Atthis place there were discovered, in the spring of 1895,two steles with Aramaic inscriptions. Both are tombstone. THE DISCOVERY OF TIPHSAH. 83 inscriptions of priests of Sahar-cn-Nirab, or the moongod of Nirab, and both are archaic. This town is men-tioned by Thothmes III. in the list of conquests madeby him in Syria. Not only, therefore, is it an extremelyancient place, but it has also retained its present nameunchanged from the earliest times. Presumably many ofthe other villages and tels which abound in that neigh-borhood cover equally early remains, although the visibleantiquities are all of a later period. The next morning we were up at half-past four; but itwas hard work to start our large caravan promptly, andwe did not leave Jebrin until eight oclock. The firstvillage which we passed was a very small one, Umm-el-Asaine by name. Shortly after passing this, Field,Noorian, and I made a detour southward to the villageand tel of Alcb. Evi
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