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Loftus tells us that at Warka he dug trenches between thirty and forty feet deep without reaching the lowest stratum of sepulchres. There was no apparent order in their arrangement. Sometimes brick divisions were found for a certain length, as if used to separate the tombs of one family from those of another. A layer of fine dust, spread evenly by the winds from the desert, separated the coffins.
The excavations conducted at these places, especially at Niffer, Senkereh, Warka, and Mugheir, were eminently successful.
PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, vol. i. p. 236; LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 261. LOFTUS, Warka, its Ruins, &c. p. 10. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 29 and 248. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 58. See also TAYLOR on "Mugheir," &c. At Birs-Nimroud these conduits are about nine inches high and between five and six wide.
He was an ardent traveller and excellent observer, and science experienced a real loss in his death. The only work which he has left behind him may still be read with pleasure and profit, namely, Travels and Researches in Chaldæa and Susiana, with an Account of Excavations at Warka, the "Ereich" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the palace" of Esther, 8vo, London: 1857.
Asaad Shidiak was the fourth son of a respectable Maronite, and was born about the year 1797, at Hadet, a small village a few miles from Beirût. His early training was among the Maronites. Such was his ability and fondness for learning, that his family aided him in preparing for the Maronite college at Ain Warka, the most noted seminary on the mountains.
As usual in Egyptian writing, the hieroglyph of these buildings takes the form of a plan. The plan shows a crenelated enclosure, resembling the walls of a great Babylonian palace or temple, such as have been found at Telloh, Warka, or Mukayyar.
The chief seat of his worship is Huruk or Erech the modern Warka which becomes the favorite Chaldaean burying city, as being under his protection. There are some grounds for thinking that one of his names was Dis.
At Warka, however, LOFTUS found in the building he calls Wuswas a layer of plaster which was from two to four inches thick. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 77, 78. PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 25. Ibid. vol. i. pp. 141-146; vol. ii. pp. 79, 80; vol. iii. plates 36 and 37. PLACE, Ninive, vol. iii. plate 32. G. SMITH, Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 77, 78.
In the harem wall these grooves flank the group of vertical reeds right and left, dividing each of the angle piers into two quasi-pilasters. At Warka they appear in the higher part of the façade, above the groups of semi-columns. They serve to mark out a series of panels, of which only the lower parts have been preserved.
The Patriarch offered to absolve him from the sin of falsehood, to which Asaad replied, "What the law of nature condemns, no man can make lawful." Accompanied by a priest, he visited his own college of Ain Warka, but gained no light; and the same was true of his visit to the superior of the convent of Bzummár, who desired to see him.
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