[1321] See Peters' Nippur, ii. 124 seq.
[1322] IIR. 50, obverse.
[1323] Perhaps, however, these several names all designate a single zikkurat.
[1324] Peters' Nippur, i. 246; ii. 120.
[1325] For the meaning of this phrase, see Winckler's Altorientalische Forschungen, iii. 208-222, and Jensen's Kosmologie, p. 167.
[1326] From Heuzey's note in De Sarzec, Décourveries en Chaldée, p. 31, it would appear that at Lagash there was a zikkurat of modest proportions, but Dr. Peters informs me that from his observations at Telloh, he questions whether the building in question represents a zikkurat at all, though, as we know from other sources, a zikkurat existed there in the days of Gudea.
[1327] Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, xviii.
[1328] Of Sargon's zikkurat at Khorsabad, also, only four stories have been found. Perrot and Chiplez (History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria, i. 388) suppose that there may have been seven.
[1329] E.g. Perrot and Chiplez, ib. p. 128. Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, p. 19.
[1330] Peters (Nippur, i. 214) found many yellow-colored bricks at Borsippa.