...inclined to suspect that the interior parts of the brickwork were originally empty, and that they, as well as their intermediate spaces, have been filled...can possibly be rescued. All breaks away in morsels, and, without the props, at present supporting the partitions, the whole would instantly fall to atoms....

...generally massacred, though their • " As there is also a great quantity of charcoal to be seen, so I suppose the wooden roof was destroyed by fire, and thus the gypsum partitions, or panels, became calcined and converted into plaster." — M. Botta's Letters on the Discoveries at...