. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . act up to the top ; it is strengthenedby buttresses—nine on the longer and six on the shorter sides—projectingabout a foot, which relieve its rather bare The second story risesto the height of only 20 feet above the first, and when intact could not 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin. The restoration differs from that proposed by Perrot-Chipiez,Histoire de lArt dans lAntiquité, vol. ii. pl. 386, and pl. ii. ; and Fr. Eeber, Ueber altchalddischeKunst, in the Zeitschri/t fur Assyriologie, vol. i. p. 175, 1. I have made it by working out thedescript
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . act up to the top ; it is strengthenedby buttresses—nine on the longer and six on the shorter sides—projectingabout a foot, which relieve its rather bare The second story risesto the height of only 20 feet above the first, and when intact could not 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin. The restoration differs from that proposed by Perrot-Chipiez,Histoire de lArt dans lAntiquité, vol. ii. pl. 386, and pl. ii. ; and Fr. Eeber, Ueber altchalddischeKunst, in the Zeitschri/t fur Assyriologie, vol. i. p. 175, 1. I have made it by working out thedescription taken down on the spot by Taylor, Notes on the Ruins of Muqeyer, in the Journal of theRoyal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. pp. 260-270 ; and by Loftus, Travels and Researches in Chaldxa andSusiana, pp. 127-134. 2 The dimensions are taken from Loftus {Travels and Researches in Chaldxa and Susiana, p. 129) 3 Taylor, Notes on the Ruins of Muqeyer, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 261. 630 THE TEMPLES AND THE GODS OF THE TEMPLE OF URTJ IN ITS PRESENT STATE, ACCORDING TO TAYLOR. have been more than 26 to 30 feet Many bricks bearing the stampof Dungi are found among the materials used in the latest restoration, whichtook place about the VI1 century before our era ; they have a smooth surface,are broken here and there by air-holes, and their very simplicity seems to bearwitness to the fact that Nabonidos confined himself to the task of merely restor-ing things to the state in which the earlier kings of Uru had left Tillwithin the last century, traces of a third story to this temple might have been distinguished ; unlikethe lower ones, it wasnot of solid brickwork,but contained at leastone chamber : this wasthe Holy of Holies, thesanctuary of external walls werecovered with pale blueenamelled tiles, havinga polished surface. The interior was panelled with cedar or cypress—rarewoods procured as articles of commerce from the pe
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