"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." [‎٢‎٤‎٢] (٤٧٤/٣٤٠)

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built, according to an inscription on it, in the year
700 of the Hejira, I believe by a Khojah Bed-
mddeen ; and the building of it must have caused
great havoc among the antiquities, as it has been
paved with large stones from the ruins. Some men,
women, and camels passed us of the Shahseven*
Turkish tribe ; each man had a hawk on his fist.
They said they were the Shahzadeh's falconers.
After breakfast I went to the most interesting
of the ruins (the Mesjid i Maderi Suleiman), f
It is a perfect sarcophagus, placed on a pyramid,
all of white marble. The top is arched, J resting
on a cornice. There is a little door, above which
aie the marks of a tablet in very correct taste,
which may have contained the celebrated inscrip
tion. The whole is of enormous blocks of stone,
cramped together, just like the Takht i Sulei
man ; and they have in like manner bored holes
to get at the metal. The building is aligned N.
55 W. by S. 55 E. The little door is at the
noithern end, and is the only aperture. I can
easily conceive how this building may have appeared
to be one piece formerly. The inside is small and
blackened with the smoke of lamps. The Mahom-
* Or King-loving.
f See Rich's Residence in Koordistan, vol. ii. p. 219.
J tt 1 S quite evident that the roof has been arched, and it is even
C ftl 0W 'f y ™, e t ! 0 Slde I)ieCes which reniain above the first layer
rlmSn PieCeS 0f the t0p are S 0116 ' <>% the centre one
leraams.