"سرد لرحلة إلى موقع مدينة بابل في ١٨١١، طُبعت الآن لأول مرة: مذكرات على الأطلال؛ مع نقوش من الخرائط المدبئية للمؤلف: ملاحظات على طبوغرافية بابل القديمة،بقلم الرائد رينيل؛ في إشارة إلى المذكرات: مذكرات ثانية على الأطلال؛ في إشارة إلى ملاحظات الرائد رينيل: مع سرد لرحلة إلى برسبوليس: طُبعت الآن لأول مرة، مع كتابات مسمارية نسخت في برسبوليس ولم تُنشر من قبل: كتبها الراحل كلوديوس جيمس ريتش، المحترم، المقيم البريطاني السابق لشركة الهند الشرقية في بغداد. حررته أرملته." [‎١‎٧‎٦] (٤٧٤/٢٦٤)

176 NOTES ON SECOND MEMOIR
Herodotus guilty of an absurdity that would reduce him to
a level with Ctesias, originated in an error which had long
ago been exploded. (Vide Herod. Wess. p. 85, note.)
(C.) Page 153.
Some observations occur here respecting the palace or
palaces, which ought not to be omitted. In the Geography
of Herodotus, p. 355, it is said (from Diodorus) that the
lesser palace is on the east, where is also the brazen statue
of Belus. Lest it should be conceived that this statement
contains some allusion to the Temple of Belus, and con
sequently be used to establish the position of that building,
it is proper to give the whole passage from Diodorus: ^ In
place of the fictile earthen images of beasts (which orna
ment the walls of the large palace) are here (in the smaller
palace) the brazen statues of Ninus and Semiramis, of the
prefects, and also of Jupiter, who is named by the Baby
lonians, Belus." (Diod. lib. ii. c. 8.)
In the same work (p. 337) Major Rennell, in giving an
account of Babylon according to the notions of Herodotus,
says, a In the centre of each division of the city is a circular
space, surrounded by a wall; in one of these stands the
royal palace, which fills a large and strongly defended
space; the Temple of Jupiter occupies the other." And
yet in the " Remarks" he objects to the inclosure which I
suppose may have contained the palace, on account of its
being circular. Neither is the description he has given
from Herodotus, as quoted above, reconcileable with what
he says a little further on, on the authority of Diodorus,—
that the palace was a square of 1| mile.—(See Geog. of
Herod., p. 354.) But the truth is, that neither does
Herodotus mention the circle, nor Diodorus the square.
There is certainly no reason to believe that the palace was
of the latter form.