A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . trench still deeper to the virginrock, in order to complete the digging. ITiis process liad naturally been lefttill last, as it involved considerable destruction to the buildings alreadyuncovered. It was in the course of the deeper trenching that the discoveriesreferred to in the text were made ; for brief reports of them by Andrae, seethe Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft/ No. 54 (June, 1914). 138 HISTORY OF BABYLON The extremely archaic character of the work iswell illustrated by a head, possibly
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . trench still deeper to the virginrock, in order to complete the digging. ITiis process liad naturally been lefttill last, as it involved considerable destruction to the buildings alreadyuncovered. It was in the course of the deeper trenching that the discoveriesreferred to in the text were made ; for brief reports of them by Andrae, seethe Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft/ No. 54 (June, 1914). 138 HISTORY OF BABYLON The extremely archaic character of the work iswell illustrated by a head, possibly that of a femalefigure, in which the inlaying of the eyes recalls afamiliar practice in early work from Babylonia. Butthe most striking evidence was furnished by heads ofmale figures, which, if offered for sale without a know-ledge of their provenance, would undoubtedly havebeen accepted as coming from Tello or Bismaya, thesites of the early Sumerian cities of Lagash and racial type presented by the heads appears to bepurely Sumerian, and, though one figure at least is.
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