A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . ing altogethereight hundred talents. 1 See above, p. 23, Fig. 3, E. - See p. 74, Fig. 27, C. 3 See Rawlinson, Cun. luscr. AVest. Asia, I., pi. 67, Col. I., 11. 21 ff.,aud cf. Bezold iu Schraders Keilins. Bibl., III., ii., p. 72 f., and Langdon,^Neubab. Kouigsinschriften, p. 210 f. * The main entrance to the temple was approached through an annexon the east (Fig. 27, D), of which the external walls only have been tracedby tunnelling, while its interior remains still unexplored. It mil be noted inthe plan that the
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . ing altogethereight hundred talents. 1 See above, p. 23, Fig. 3, E. - See p. 74, Fig. 27, C. 3 See Rawlinson, Cun. luscr. AVest. Asia, I., pi. 67, Col. I., 11. 21 ff.,aud cf. Bezold iu Schraders Keilins. Bibl., III., ii., p. 72 f., and Langdon,^Neubab. Kouigsinschriften, p. 210 f. * The main entrance to the temple was approached through an annexon the east (Fig. 27, D), of which the external walls only have been tracedby tunnelling, while its interior remains still unexplored. It mil be noted inthe plan that the main entrance to the annex is again on the east side, markedby a recess in the enclosing wall, almost opposite the main entrance to thetemple. The approach to the annex was doubtless by a branch of theProcession Street, which must have left the principal roadway oppositeentrance No. 4 of the Peribolos (see Fig. 27). 5 Cf. East India House Inscr., Col. II., 11. 43ff., and Col. III., 11. 21 ff. * The KaTO) v7)6s, to distinguish it from that on the I., 183. nz a*. TWO vip:\vs of the of nixik in course of excavation. THE CITY AND ITS REMAINS 73 The identification of the temple was rendered certainby the discovery of* inscribed bricks in earUer pavementsbelow those of Nebuchadnezzar. Inscriptions stampedupon bricks from two pavements of Ashur-bani-palrecord that this Assyrian king made bricks of E-sagilaand E-temen-anki, while on an older one which here-used, stamped with the name of Esarhaddon, it isdefinitely stated that it formed part of the paving ofE-sagila.^ These pavements were reached by means ofan open excavation in Tell Amran, extending someforty metres each way. It took no less than eightmonths to remove the soil to the pavement level, and itis estimated that some thirty thousand cubic metres ofearth were carted away in the course of the work. Itis not surprising, therefore, that the chambers on thewest side of the court, including the shrine of M
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