The Excavations at Babylon

Amran ancient Arachtu wall asphalt Babil Babylonian bastion bitumen Borsippa brickwork built burnt brick canal cella centimetres chambers colour corner course crude brick Ctesias cylinder door doorway east eastern enamelled entrance Esagila Esarhaddon Etemenanki Euphrates excavations formed fortification walls foundation front gateway Greek ground-plan height Herodotus Homera Ishtar Gate joints Kasr King of Babylon Kisu Kweiresh laid later layer Marduk Merkes metres above zero moat wall mound mud brick mud wall Nabonidus Nabopolassar Nabopolassar Palace Nebuchad Nebuchadnezzar Neriglissar Ninmach north-east northern outer Parthian pavement peribolos period Persian placed portion postament pottery Principal Citadel Procession Street recognised relief ruins Sardanapalus Sargon side sirrush Southern Citadel stamps Steinplatten inscription stone temple thick towers upper Vaulted Building western δὲ ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ ἐς ἦν καὶ μὲν οἱ τὰ τὰς τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν