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

DURING 19 ni CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 545
unearthed remains are, they suffice to show that in pre-Sargonic
times the city had nearly the same extent as in the
days of Ur-Gur (about 2700 b. c.) or Kadashman-Turgu
(about 1350 b. c). But how much of the ground was
reserved for the dead and how much for the living cannot
be ascertained for many years to come. The numerous
single pre-Sargonic bricks, the remains of walls and other
early constructions already excavated, together with several
hundred inscribed clay tablets (pp. 388, 403, seqq.), objects
of art (pp. 383, seq., 474, seq.) and other antiquities (