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Fig. 63.—Layard’s plan of the Palace of Sennacherib discovered in the mound of Kouyunjik. The temple axis, XXXVI., XXXIV., XXIX., XIX. (XXII. is on a lower level), faces the rising of the May sun.
As we have seen ([p. 299]), Spica had this declination in 3200 B.C., and the coincidence may have been the reason for the erection, or, more probably, the restoration, of the temple,[123] especially as γ Draconis came into play as a new clock-star at the same date.
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Fig. 64.—Layard’s plan of the Mound at Nimrood showing its equinoctial orientation.
The researches of Mr. Penrose in Greece have provided us with temples oriented to the May-year sun. I shall return to them afterwards, as they are later in time than the British monuments.
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