. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . dred feet above the level of the valley of theriver. The streets all run at right angles, and can be read-ily traced by the lines of the house foundations in gyp-sum. The main streets are about fifty feet in breadthfrom house line to house line, the others narrower. Atthe northeastern corner, at the point marked H, on asmall point or promontory jutting out at an angle, was acitadel. The inner wall of this toward the city stillstands to a
. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . dred feet above the level of the valley of theriver. The streets all run at right angles, and can be read-ily traced by the lines of the house foundations in gyp-sum. The main streets are about fifty feet in breadthfrom house line to house line, the others narrower. Atthe northeastern corner, at the point marked H, on asmall point or promontory jutting out at an angle, was acitadel. The inner wall of this toward the city stillstands to a great height; but the larger part of the outerwall, if there ever was one, on the edge of the precipice,must be buried in the vast masses of rock which have 132 NIPPUR. broken off and fallen into the plain. The rock of thecliffs is so stratified that the softer strata are air and water wear away these softer strata, greatblocks break off from above, and are precipitated into theplain below. There are some heaps of ruins within thecity, but nothing which looks like a building of import-ance, and no inscription, no columns or decorations. 0 Q. PLAN OF —Great wall across plateau from ravine to ravine; B—Small wall on edge of bluffs ;_C—Place where no wall can be surely traced; D—Wall guarding pass up face of blufffrom Euphrates Valley; E E—Ravines; F—Main gate; G—Small gate; H—Citadel ;I—Space within walls occupied by houses, accessible only by path through D ; K—Ruinedtower tomb ; L—Mass of ruins. Everything is rectangular and massive. F is the maingate; G, a smaller gate north of this; H, the citadel; K,the ruin of a massive tower, apparently a tomb, on theplateau, and a little more than a quarter of a mile to the DEIR TO ANAH. I33 northwest of the city; L, a small shapeless heap of ruinsbetween that and the city, perhaps the ruins of anotherand smaller tomb. There is a ruin on a promontory to thenortheast, separated from the city by a
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