26.
A little further evidence can be drawn from other Mesopotamian sites.
The city of Asshur had a long, broad avenue like the sacred road of Babylon, but the one _insula_ of its private houses which has yet been excavated, planned and published, shows no sign of rectangular planning.[16] There is also literary evidence that Sanherib (765-681 B.C.) laid out a 'Kingsway' 100 ft.

wide to promote easy movement through his city of Nineveh, and Delitzsch has even credited the Sargonid dynasty generally (722-625 B.C.) with a care for the dwellings of common men as well as of gods and of kings.[17] [16] _Mitt, deutsch.

Orient-Gesell._ 28, Sept.

1905; 31, May 1906.
[17] F.Delitzsch, _Asurbanipal und die assyr.

Kultur seiner Zeit_ (_Der alte Orient_, Leipzig, 1909), p.