And so they traveled until they reached Uruk.
There Gilgamesh the king said to the boatman:
“
Study the brickwork, study the fortification;
climb the ancient staircase to the terrace;
study how it is made; from the terrace see
the planted and fallow fields, the ponds and orchards.
One league is the inner city, another league
is orchards; still another the fields beyond;
over there is the precinct of the temple. . . . ,
Three leagues and the temple precinct of Ishtar.”
Measure Uruk,
the city of Gilgamesh
-The Epic of Jakuba.