"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." [‎٢‎٤‎٧] (٤٧٤/٣٤٥)

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the moon rose I again wandered out among them.
The effect of the moonlight was very fine, especially
upon the portals.
August 23/6?.—In the morning early I went first
to visit the tombs. In the first were two sarcophagi
cut out of the rock, 9 feet 4 inches long, by 3 feet 10
inches broad. The tomb itself was 21 feet long by
11 feet 1 inch broad ; it was mostly filled up with
mud brought in by the rains. There was a mud in-
closure round the whole, and it was separated from
the platform by another. I observed marks of iron
cramps to join a piece of the rock, exactly as at
Cyrus's tomb.
The frontispiece was very fine : the figure of the
priest was rather squat and but the exe
cution of the whole was very beautiful. The second
tomb was in a more ruinous condition, and gene
rally of the same design as the first one, but it is by
a different hand, and I is more ancient.
The priest is better sketched; in the inside were
three alcoves, but no sarcophagi.
The general view of the ruins was grand: the
colonnade, in which fifteen colmnns were still stend-
ing, very fine; the principal budding rather what
the French call ecrasi, staffed and very heavy ; hnt
the execution of the whole was beautiful. The
portals at the landing-place were much too narrow,
all the doors were narrow: in short, the same
defects were conspicuous in these as prevail in
modern orienlal buildings. The whole rum, how-