"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." [‎١‎٨‎٨] (٤٧٤/٢٧٦)

188 BABYLONIAN ANTIQUES. [ app.
parent motive, render very difficult. I shall, how
ever, never lose sight of it.
No. 5 is a small piece of clay of this size, which
contains an inscription only on one side. The writ
ing is of the second species, and the letters slope a
little, which is frequently the case in inscriptions of
this kind.
I have lately received a small piece of brick of a
very fine quality, with a varnished surface, from
Mousul. It was found among the ruins of Nineveh,
and contains an inscription in cuneiform letters so
minute and difficult to read that I have not yet been
able to determine to what class it is to be assigned.
The third class of Babylonian writing is that
found on the bricks and cylinders. The Babylonian
bricks have been described in other places, and
some specimens of them are already before the
public. The antiquary is aware that the custom
of stamping letters on bricks was not peculiar to
Babylon, and that examples of it occur in the ruins
of Greece. Among the scanty remains of Seleucia
on the Tigris I found numbers of bricks with im
pressions on them ; but from the coarseness of the
materials and inferiority of workmanship I have
never been able to discover any writing. The
stamps with which the bricks of Babylon are im
pressed are, on the contrary, cut very neatly and ap
plied with care ; and even some precaution appears
to have been taken to preserve the writing, for they
are all placed with their faces or written part down-