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Now both at Warka and at Mugheir one corner of a building is always turned towards the true north. The same arrangement is to be found in the palace excavated by M. de Sarzec at Tello. Most of the Assyrian architects did likewise. Its circumvallation incloses an almost exact square, the diagonals of which point to the north, south, east and west respectively.
Fifteen miles from Larsa, in a direction a little north of west, and on the same side of the river, are ruins considerably more extensive than those of either Ur or Larsa, to which the natives apply the name of Warka, which is no doubt a corruption of the original appellation.
These are for the most part temples; but in one or two cases the edifice explored is thought to have been a residence, so that the domestic architecture of the period may be regarded as known to us, at least in some degree. The temples most carefully examined hitherto are those at Warka, Mugheir, and Abu-Shahrein, the first of which was explored by Mr. Loftus in 1854, the second by Mr.
Hence, as might be expected, fluviatile and marine shells are common in the alluvial deposit; and Loftus found strata, containing subfossil marine shells of species now living, in the Persian Gulf, at Warka, two hundred miles in a straight line from the shore of the delta.
The dead are often conveyed hundreds of miles to be interred in Nejef and Kerbela. Peters' Nippur, ii. 325, 326. See below, p. 597. Koldewey, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, ii. 406 seq. Ib. Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana, chapter xviii. Peters' Nippur, ii. 234. Other mounds examined by Peters between Warka and Nippur bear out the conclusion.
The blue is very fine, rivalling the old Egyptian. The blue glaze has often changed to a dark green, especially in the case of the Warka slipper-coffins. The lids are cemented to the coffins.
The place of Tannûs, Arabic teacher in the seminary, who was sick, was supplied by Butrus el-Bistany, from the Maronite College at Ain Warka. He had written a treatise against the corruptions of Popery and the supremacy of the Pope, and the enraged Patriarch had tried to get him into his power, but without success. The brethren all reassembled at Beirût early in the year 1841, and Mr.
At Warka, for instance, excepting the triangular space between the three principal ruins, the whole remainder of the platform, the whole space within the walls, and an unknown extent of desert beyond them, are everywhere filled with human bones and sepulchres.
In the south again, the English followed close upon the heels of the French. J. E. Taylor, in 1854, visited many of the huge mounds that were scattered throughout Southern Mesopotamia in much larger numbers than in the north, while his compatriot, William K. Loftus, a few years previous had begun excavations, though on a small scale, at Warka, the site of the ancient city of Erech.
Objects from mounds very like those of preceding age, but less of Roman origin. Not much known of burials; the Warka slipper-coffins usually regarded as Parthian may possibly be of early Sassanian age. VII. LATER IRON AGE: Muhammadan Period; c. 650-1500 A.D. Characteristics.
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