[Footnote 158: During the recent excavation of the tower the outer facing of burnt brick has been uncovered along the north side, and it was seen to have been decorated with twelve tower-like projections. A considerable fragment was also found on the west side; and the exterior measurement of both these sides of the tower was ascertained to be ninety-one metres. The crude-brick core measures about sixty-one metres along its north front. See "Mitteil. der Deutsch. Orient-Gesellschaft," No. 53 (April, 1914), p. 18.] [Footnote 159: The outer stairways were eight metres in breadth, and sixteen steps are still preserved of the one in the south-west corner; cf. "Mitteil. d. Deutsch. Or.-Gesells.," No. 53, p. 19.] [Footnote 160: Fig. 27, II and J.] [Footnote 161: Fig. 27, E.] [Footnote 162: Fig. 27, G.] [Footnote 163: Fig. 27, Entrance No. 2.] [Footnote 164: This arrangement is suggested in Fig. 28.] [Footnote 165: I., 181.] [Footnote 166: See above, p. 75.] [Footnote 167: See Fig. 29, G.] [Footnote 168: C and D.] [Footnote 169: The bronze step of Nebuchadnezzar, preserved in the British Museum (see above, p. 27, n. 1), seems to have come from the temple entrance in the south-west front, facing the temple-tower.] [Footnote 170: Fig. 29, A.] [Footnote 171: Fig. 29, B.] [Footnote 172: In the engraving, in order that the wedge and the dragon should stand out in relief, the surface of the stone has been cut away round them. This gives the lowest story of the tower an appearance of having arched openings in it. It should, of course, be solid, like the other stages of the tower, the apparent openings being merely due to the exigencies of the engraver; cf. King, "Boundary-Stones and Memorial-Tablets in the British Museum." p. 25, n. 1. A photographic reproduction of this portion of the stone is given, _op. cit.,_ Pl. xli.] [Footnote 173: In the "Athenæum," Feb. 12th, 1876.] [Footnote 174: See Scheil, "Esagil ou le temple de Bêl-Marduk," in the "Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres," vol. xxxix. (1914), pp. 293 ff.; and cp. the "Étude arithmétique et architectonique du texte," by Dieulafoy, _ibid.,_ pp. 309 ff.] [Footnote 175: See above, p. 74, Fig. 27, F.] [Footnote 176: Fig. 27, E.] [Footnote 177: According to M. Dieulafoy's theory, the tower itself was built in five stages, standing on a massive base (_kigullu,_) which in turn rested on a plinth, or terrace, extending over a great part of the temple-court; thus, including the temple at the summit of the tower, the eight stages of Herodotus would be explained.] [Footnote 178: See above, p. 74, Fig. 27, and cp. Fig. 28.] [Footnote 179: I., 186.] [Footnote 180: II., 8.] [Footnote 181: Col. IV., 1. 66--Col. V., 1. 4.] [Footnote 182: See above, p. 37.] [Footnote 183: See p. 74, Fig. 27, K and L.] [Footnote 184: See above, p. 39.] [Footnote 185: See above, p. 68 ff.]