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lowest and earliest ones (indicated, for convenience, with the letters 

 G and F) belong to the city of Ga-sur; the five later ones (indi- 

 cated with the letters E, D, C, B, and A) to the city of Nuzi (see 

 figs. 2 and 3). The building below Temple G, judged from its 

 plan, was not a sanctuary. 



Temple G exhibits the stately and unadorned massiveness and the 

 simple symmetry characteristic of the ancient Babylonian shrines. 

 The thick buttressed adobe walls of the rectangular structure may 

 have supported turrets at three of the corners, though not at the 

 corner by the entrance. The entrance door is preceded by a narthex 

 (or outer porch) and gives immediate access to the adytum (or 

 shrine) (G29). Within the adytum, in the wall facing the entrance, 



FiGUBB 3. — Restored perspective view of the temple area, in its last stage, from the 



north. 



2 doors admitted to 8 dark chambers tunneled inside of 2 walls ; these 

 narrow chambers could be locked and were conceivably used for stor- 

 age. This temjDle, as the later ones, may have had a courtyard, but 

 if so it has been totally obliterated. 



Temple F is radically different from G. The adytum (G29), on 

 the same level, was made considerably narrower by increasing the 

 thickness of the walls. At the same time the chambers inside the 

 walls were completely filled with carefully laid unburnt bricks, 

 thus producing external walls of extraordinary width and solidity. 

 The narthex was transformed into an enclosed vestibule provided 

 with two external doors, one leading to the street, the other to the 

 enclosed temple court. Of far greater importance than these changes 

 is the erection of another complete temple along the southeastern 

 wall. The new edifice was far less pretentious, but its adytum (G53) 

 and the court (H20) were more spacious, its buttresses more con- 

 spicuous. Two chambers were built within the court; one was 



