Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

DURING ID"! CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 43L
to his care, to concentrate his efforts principally upon
two of the other mounds, namely, the so-called " Tablet
Hill " (IV, the probable site of the temple library),
which he had not touched at all during the third campaign,
and which, above all, needed a methodical exploration
; and the mound represented by the so-called " Court
of Columns " (VII) at the north end of the ridge to the
west of the Shatt en-Nil. 3. To make the settling of the
numerous topographical questions one of the most essential
tasks of this expedition, and to regard the location of
one or more of the ancient city gates, particularly of the
eastern and southern gates, in all probability represented
by the abullu rabu (" the large gate "), and the abullu Shibi
The Daghara Canal and a Freight-Boat (Meshhuf) of the Expedition
Uruku of the inscriptions, as " one of the necessary points
to be determined during this campaign." The critical examination
of the exposed structures and antiquities, the