. Discovery. Science. 258 DISCOVERY \'isionalh- known as " B ") which at first was sup- posed, on the evidence of the stamps on bricks of its pavement, to be £-harsag, " House of the Mountain," a palace of the King Shulgi or Dungi, the successor of Ur-Nammu. This evidence is apparently contra- dicted by the discovery in 1923 and identification by. Fig. 3.—SMAr,!, STATUE OF ,, DOORKEFPER OF THE TEMPI,E OF ERECH; ABOUT 3000 Found at el-'Obeid, 1019. By co'.irlesy of the Brili-ih Mlise:im. Mr. Sidney Smith of a brick with the temple-inscription of Ur-Nammu in the
. Discovery. Science. 258 DISCOVERY \'isionalh- known as " B ") which at first was sup- posed, on the evidence of the stamps on bricks of its pavement, to be £-harsag, " House of the Mountain," a palace of the King Shulgi or Dungi, the successor of Ur-Nammu. This evidence is apparently contra- dicted by the discovery in 1923 and identification by. Fig. 3.—SMAr,!, STATUE OF ,, DOORKEFPER OF THE TEMPI,E OF ERECH; ABOUT 3000 Found at el-'Obeid, 1019. By co'.irlesy of the Brili-ih Mlise:im. Mr. Sidney Smith of a brick with the temple-inscription of Ur-Nammu in the wall of the building. It is not yet decided, therefore, whether this building is a palace or a temple, though Mr. F. G. Newton, speaking as an architect, pronounces in favour of a temple and the authority of Ur-Nammu's bricks over Shulgi's ! Unluckily a foundation-deposit excavated in 1923 yielded us no decisive evidence on the point, as the tablet accompanying it, which should have told us the name of the builder, was blank. This building " B," if a temple, was no doubt part of the great temple of Nannar. The part uncovered (Fig. 2) may have been chiefly the priestly quarters. It was later on, after it had long been burnt and ruined, reoccupied and then certainly inhabited (in the Assyrian period probably) by priestly families who rebuilt it on a slighter and smaller scale, generally using the ancient bricks for the purpose. Some of their domestic addi- tions, such as bread-ovens, wash-places, etc., still remain, and the later walls, either of their time or (some) possibly of even later period, are easily dis- tinguished by their slightness and careless building from those of the original builders, which are splen- didly built and generally 5 ft. thick. In this building pottery and tablets of the Assyrian period were found in 1919, and a few relics of the original builders, in- cluding two fragments of statues (now in the British Museum) of the later Sumerian peri
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