Identifier: travelsresearche00loft (find matches)
Title: Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 ..
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Loftus, William Kennett
Subjects: Babylonia -- Antiquities Khuzistan (Iran) -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : J. Nisbet and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Plan of the Grout Temple of Mflgeyer.
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RUINS OF MIJGEYER. 129 deep, and, with the exception of those at the angles, 8feet wide. The longest sides—the north-east and south-west—measure 198 feet each; the others only 133 feet.The number of buttresses on the south-west are nine,and on the north-west six. Those of the other sidesare concealed in rubbish. Whether intentional or not,the above measurements and numbers are in the ratioof 3 : 2. The basement or lower story is 27 feet in height, andexhibits but one entrance, 8 feet wide, on the north-eastside, which leads from the base to the summit of thebuilding. Between the stories is a gradual, stepped in-cline, about 7 feet in perpendicular height, which may,,however, be accidental, and arise from the destruction ofthe upper part of the lower story. The upper story is 14 feet in height, surmounted byabout 5 feet of brick rubbish. As far as I could ascer-tain, the sides of this story are without supporting but-tresses, measure respectively 119 by 75 feet, and recedeseveral f

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