The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . eam, turning its course westwards, has transferred to theeastern bank the gardens and mounds originally on the opposite side.^ E-sagilla,the temple of the lofty summit, the sanctuary of Merodach, probably occupied Prepared by Thuillier, from a plan reproduced in G. Rawlinson, Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 473. The first detailed description that we possess of tho ruins of Babylon is that of J. C. Rlou,Voyage aux ruines ile Babi/lone, Iraduit et enrichi dobservations, avec dcs notes expUcatives, pur ), aneien consul de Bassora, Paris,
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . eam, turning its course westwards, has transferred to theeastern bank the gardens and mounds originally on the opposite side.^ E-sagilla,the temple of the lofty summit, the sanctuary of Merodach, probably occupied Prepared by Thuillier, from a plan reproduced in G. Rawlinson, Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 473. The first detailed description that we possess of tho ruins of Babylon is that of J. C. Rlou,Voyage aux ruines ile Babi/lone, Iraduit et enrichi dobservations, avec dcs notes expUcatives, pur ), aneien consul de Bassora, Paris, 1818. They liavo been very carefully studied by Oitkut,Jixpffditioii en Mgsoijotamie, vol. i. pp. 135-254, who proposed identifications for the various divisionsof the ruins, all of which are not accepted at tlie present day. A very clear exposition of all thofacts relating to the subject is found in G. Rawlinson, On the Topography of Babylon (Uerodotus, ). The dilBculties raised could only be solved by systematic excavation, of which there is. PLAN OF THE RUINS OF BABYLON. 22 THE FIBST CHALDEAN EMPIRE. the vacant space in the depression between the Babil and the hill of the Kasr.*In early times it must have presented much the same appearance as thesanctuaries of Central Chaldfea : a mound of crude brick formed the sub-structure of tlie dwellings of the priests and the household of the god, of theshops for the ofierings and for provisions, of the treasury, and of the apartmentsfor purification or for sacrifice, while the whole was surmounted by a other neighbouring platforms rose the royal palace and the temples oflesser divinities,^ elevated above the crowd of private habitations. The houses
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