It is the name given in the Code to the fold where sheep and oxen are kept.(614) Vines might grow in it,(615) and butter was kept there. A _bît kutalli_, or out-house, is named. Often _bît rimki_, or “wash-house,” is also mentioned. This was a chamber within the house, and may be rather meant for lustration, than for ordinary washing. One house had three of these rooms.(616) Sometimes there was a _bûru_, a “well,” or cistern, within the house.(617) A “shop,” or _bît ḳâtâti_, was often attached.(618) Stables, _bît abusate_, are named.(619) What is meant by _bît irši_ is difficult to determine, perhaps some chamber fitted with beds and couches.(620) The _bît akulli_ had a well in it, but what it was is not clear.(621) The _bîtu elîtu_(622) may be an “upper story.” If so, most houses were one-storied only. (M587) Another interior apartment is called a _kimaḫḫu_. This has usually been taken to be a “tomb.” We know that the old Babylonian kings were buried in the palace of Sargon. But this was when the palace was no longer the abode of the living. Ashurbânipal’s charter to his faithful general and tutor-in-arms, Nabû-shar-uṣur,(623) seems to contemplate that general’s being buried in the palace, though this is not certain. However, the explorations of Nippur demonstrate the existence of vaults for burial, built over with brickwork. It may be that such vaults did exist within the house, and were sold with it. A “portico,” _bît mutirrêti_, is named once.(624) Beside the “great house,” _bîtu dannu_, or _bitannu_, a “second house,” _bît šanû_, is mentioned. The exit from the house, _mûṣû_, a way to the street, was often named, being very important where the house was bounded on four sides by others. (M588) Most of the houses, of which we have deeds of sale, were situated in Nineveh itself. Occasionally, the house is shut in by more than three others, most often only by three. Then the fourth side is said or implied to be on the street. Hence, we may be sure that in parts of Nineveh, there were continuous blocks of houses, on each side of a street. Sometimes, however, we have a garden, or orchard, as one boundary. (M589) Contrary to the practice in Babylonia, the size of the house is rarely given. We have the size of the _bîtu akulli_ given, in one case,(625) as forty-three cubits long and twenty cubits broad. What seem to be the dimensions of an ordinary house were twenty-two by fourteen cubits.(626) (M590) Houses in Assyria sold for from half a mina up to twelve minas; but as long as we are so ignorant of the form, nature, and dimensions of the house and its adjuncts, the information is of very little interest. (M591) A number of other buildings or parcels of land were sold with houses or separately. Thus, we read of a _papaḫu_, or chamber, which was beneath an adjoining beer-shop.(627) The beer-shop is often mentioned, and was a state-regulated institution.