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.