The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . for this last there is no authority at all, and the actualnumber of the stages is wholly uncertain. The baseof this ziggurat was a square, 167 feet 6 inches eachway, composed of a solid mass of sun-dried brick, facedat bottom to the height of twenty feet with a wall ofhewn stones, more than eight feet and a half in thick-ness. The outer stones were bevelled at the edges,and on the two most conspicuous sides the wall was Supra, p. 253. Nineveh and
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . for this last there is no authority at all, and the actualnumber of the stages is wholly uncertain. The baseof this ziggurat was a square, 167 feet 6 inches eachway, composed of a solid mass of sun-dried brick, facedat bottom to the height of twenty feet with a wall ofhewn stones, more than eight feet and a half in thick-ness. The outer stones were bevelled at the edges,and on the two most conspicuous sides the wall was Supra, p. 253. Nineveh and Babylon, plan opp. p. 128 ; Monuments of Nineveh, 2ndseries, frontispiece. 396 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. VI, -M -p --.
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