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century before Christ.1 The Euphrates, represented by wavy lines, is mapped as flowing past the walls of the town. A plan of the city of Madaktu of 650 B.C. (not Susa or Shushan, as the city is called by Daly and Loftus), appearing on a slab of baked brick, is probably contemporaneous with the map of Babylon.2 The bas-relief was made to adorn the walls of the palace of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, who reigned in 668-626 B.C. at Nineveh. Unfortunately a part of the slab showing the city has been destroyed. The part remaining is bordered by two rivers, and the ground plan of the city is distinct. The immediate town, surrounded by a turreted wall, is made up of square flat-roofed buildings, a few of which have turrets. Outside
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