[114] Cf. Koldewey, "Die Pflastersteine von Aiburschabu in Babylon," pp. 4 ff. The limestone is termed shadâ, or "mountain-stone," and Koldewey suggests that it was quarried in the neighbourhood of Hit on the Euphrates. The quarries from which the turmina-banda, or breccia, was obtained have not yet been identified.
[115] The course of the Procession Street may be followed in the plan on p. 83, Fig. 31; it is there marked A. The Temple of Ishtar of Akkad is lettered H.
[116] Fig. 30, G.
[117] Fig. 30, E, F; compare also Fig. 27 on p. 74, with the same lettering.
[118] Fig. 27, the gate numbered 2.
[119] See Fig. 27, where the course of the road is lettered A, as in Fig. 30.
[120] Fig. 27, B and C.
[121] See above, p. 23, Fig. 3, where the position of the two temples is indicated by the letters N and M. The line of the city-wall along part of the south side is indicated by the mounds lettered B.
[122] For the position of the temple in relation to the Ishtar Gate, see above, [p. 31, Fig. 6], where the temple is lettered J, and the Ishtar Gate H.
[123] See p. 64, Fig. 20, d. Compare also the reconstruction in Fig. 21.