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accessible only from the court of the northern temple, the other 

 served as a vestibule opening on the principal street. There was a 

 gateway between the two courts in Temples F, E, D, but it was 

 closed in Temples C, B, A. 



The adytum of the older temple (G29) in this period (F) is at its 

 best. A low altar of unburnt bricks (about 1 meter to the side and 

 0.33 meter high), with a concave top still retaining traces of fire, stood 

 before the end wall, presumably in front of the image of the deity 

 (Ishtar?). A raised brick at one of the corners of the altar served 

 perhaps as the pedestal for the clay model of a 3-story house found 

 in fragments nearby. A pilaster (1.26 meters wide and 0.56 meter 

 deep) occupied the center of the end wall and had a step (0.15 meter 

 high) before it and two platforms (0.32 meter high) at its sides. The 

 lower part of the walls was wainscoted, and their upper part was 

 painted red. 



The work of restoration that produced the E Tem.'ples^ undertaken 

 presumably by the newly arrived Hurrians, was confined at first to 

 the southern temple. In the adytum (G53) a square column of mud 

 brick, apparently used as a pedestal, stood about 1 meter from the end 

 wall, slightly off center. Along the lateral walls stood benches of 

 unburnt brick (0.37 meter high and wide) , not unlike those that in 

 the early Ishtar temple of Ashur supported divine images. The 

 adytum was divided into two chambers but only for a time. A group 

 of rooms of inferior construction surrounding a courtyard occupied 

 about half of the area of the temple court (H20). 



When the northern temple was restored after a period of complete 

 neglect, the two temples were almost separated by means of a narrow 

 blind alley, but this passage was blocked again to strengthen the walls. 

 The rebuilders of the northern temple preferred to follow the lines 

 of the wider adytum of G rather than those of F and imitated some 

 of the features of the adytum of the southern temple (G53). The 

 walls were narrowed and had more pronounced but less graceful but- 

 tresses than in F; an isolated pedestal stood near the end wall, and 

 benches were built along the walls right and left of the main en- 

 trance. Another door was opened into the adytum from the court, 

 and a dark chamber was added. In the courtyard (G50) the vestibule 

 leading into the adytum was removed, but two small rooms, one of 

 which sheltered a well, were built along the walls. Subsequently, 

 perhaps in the period of temple D, 2 niches were dug in the end wall 

 of the adytum at the 2 sides of the pedestal. 



Temple Z>, in a general way, represents merely a superficial restora- 

 tion, with occasional wall painting, of temple E. The level of the 

 southern temple (G53) was 0.3 meter higher than that of E, whereas 

 that of the northern temple (G29), rebuilt more recently, remained 



