Note 114 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Cf. Koldewey, "Die Pflastersteine von Aiburschabu in Babylon," pp. 4 ff. The limestone is termed shadâ, or "mountain-stone," and Koldewey suggests that it was quarried in the neighbourhood of Hit on the Euphrates. The quarries from which the turmina-banda, or breccia, was obtained have not yet been identified.