[1251] See [chapter v].

[1252] So at Zurghul (or Zerghul) and el-Hibba. See Koldewey in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, ii. 403-430.

[1253] See the valuable chapter in Peters' work on Nippur, ii. 214-234.

[1254] Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, 1896, p. 166. The dead are often conveyed hundreds of miles to be interred in Nejef and Kerbela.

[1255] Peters' Nippur, ii. 325, 326.

[1256] See below, p. [597].

[1257] Koldewey, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, ii. 406 seq.

[1258] Ib.

[1259] Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana, chapter xviii.

[1260] Peters' Nippur, ii. 234. Other mounds examined by Peters between Warka and Nippur bear out the conclusion.