 | 710 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick cemented with mortar are discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions on them are here and there found ; the whole is covered...and even shells, bits of glass, and mother of pearl. On asking a Turk how he imagined these latter substances were brought there, lie replied, without the... | |
 | 1816 - 572 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick cemented with mortar are discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions on them are here and there found : the whole is covered...even shells, bits of glass, and mother of pearl.' Thus much for the remains of Babylon on the eastern side of the Euphrates. Major Rennell regretted... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick cemented with mortar are discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions on them are here and there found : the whole is covered...and even shells, bits of glass, and mother of pearl. On asking a Turk how he imagined these latter substances were brought there, he replied without the... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick, cemented with mortar, are discovered, and whole bricks, with inscriptions on them, are here and there found ; the whole is covered...fragments of pottery, brick, bitumen, pebbles, vitrified krick or scoria, and even shells, bits of glass, and mother-of-pearl."— p. 28, Mr. Rich, having now... | |
 | 1817 - 548 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick cemented with mortar are discovered ; and whole bricks with inscriptions on them are here and there found : the whole is covered...them, and at what time, is inexplicable. The bricks usith inscriptions on them, understood to be parís of the original building, are the most interesting... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 486 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick cemented with mortar are discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions on them are here and there found. The whole is covered...scoria, and even shells, bits of glass, and mother of pearl.1 Such are the numerous attestations to the Mosaic history of Babel : such the vestiges, which... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 páginas
...layers of broken burnt brick, cemented with mortar, are discovered, and whole bricks, with inscriptions on them, are here and there found ; the whole is covered...even shells, bits of glass, and mother of pearl." Mr. Rich having now finished his observations on the ruins of the east bank of the Euphrates, enters... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 páginas
...are here and there discovered : the whole is covered with innumerable fragments of pottery, bric't, bitumen, pebbles, vitrified brick, or scoria, and even shells, bits of glass, and mother-of-pearl. There are many dens of wild beasts in various parts, inoneot which I found the bones... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 páginas
...burnt brick cemented with mortar were discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions are sometimes found. The whole is covered with innumerable fragments...and even shells, bits of glass, and mother of pearl. In the northern face of the Mujelibe, near the summit, is a niche or recess, high enough fur a man... | |
 | 1835 - 566 páginas
...burnt brick cemented with mortar were discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions are sometimes found. The whole is covered with innumerable fragments...vitrified brick or scoria, and even shells, bits of plass, and mother of pearl. In the northern face of the Mujelibe, near the summit, is a niche or recess,... | |
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... depth, and penetrate a considerable way into the mound. The summit is covered with heaps of rubbish, in digging into some of which, layers of broken burnt brick, cemented with mortar, are discovered, and whole bricks with inscriptions on them are... 
