[134] In some temples, as in E-zida, the temple of Nabû at Borsippa, and in the earliest remains of E-sagila (see below, [pp. 71] ff.), semicircular fillets take the place of sunken grooves.
[135] Fig. 20, A. The description may be followed by means of the index letters and figures on the plan, which are explained below it.
[136] In Fig. 20 the passage is numbered 11 and 12.
[137] They are so narrow that they can hardly have served as store-chambers.
[138] See Fig. 21.
[139] The grave was hollowed out of the massive brickwork of the outer wall, in the extreme north-west corner of the palace.
[140] Cf. "Babylon," p. 118 f.; Engl. ed., p. 110 f.
[141] In the ground-plans, which are here reproduced, the same lettering is employed, as far as they correspond, for the principal features of each building.
[142] It will be noticed that this orientation is least apparent in E-sagila (see below, p. 74, Fig. 27), and in the temple of Ishtar of Akkad (Fig. 25).
[143] Cf. Weissbach, "Babylonische Miscellen," p. 20 f., II. 17-21.