id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044022681506 Handcock, Percy S. P. Mesopotamian archaeology; an introduction to the archaeology of Babylonia and Assyria by Percy S.P. Handcock 1912 .txt text/plain 121199 5984 69 bricks and mortar of the hills and ridges of their nativeland, due to an innate aversion to the dead-level monotony of the Babylonian plain, while it is also a significant fact that in the earliest period Shamash the Sungod is represented with one foot resting on a mountain, boats, but the clay of their native soil furnished an allavailing and all-abundant material for the building operations of their palaces, temples and houses ; its possibilities were recognized at a very early date, and were made During the years 1851-1855 Place completed the excavation of Sargon's palace, and also laid bare the surrounding buildings and rooms, carrying his work right large court of Ashur's temple, part of the fortificationwall also receiving attention, while the main work centred round the palace-buildings of Shalmaneser I (circ. by the Assyrian kings, and accordingly contains the remains of several temples and palaces, but the ruins of ./cache/hvd.32044022681506.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044022681506.txt