"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." [‎٢‎٩‎٧] (٤٧٤/٤٤٠)

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« When day came, and they that guarded the castles
perceived that the city was taken and the king dead, they
gave them up. Cyrus immediately took possession of the
castles, and sent commanders with garrisons into them.
He gave up the dead to be buried by their relations, and
ordered heralds to make proclamation that the Babylonians
should bring out their arms; and made it be declared
that, in whatever house any arms should be found, all the
people in it should suffer death. They accordingly brought
out their arms, and Cyrus had them deposited in the
castles, that they might be ready in case he should want
them upon any future occasion.
" When these things had been done, then first summon
ing the magies, he commanded them to choose out for
the gods the first-fruits of certain portions of ground for
sacred use, as out of a city taken by the sword. After this
he distributed houses and palaces to those that he reckoned
had been sharers with him in all the actions that had been
performed. He made the distributions in the manner that
had been determined, the best things to the best deserving;
and if any one thought himself wronged, he ordered him to
come and acquaint him with it. He gave out orders to the
Babylonians to cultivate their land, to pay their taxes,
and to serve those that they were severally given to.
The Persians, and such as were his fellow-sharers, and
those of his allies that chose to remain with him, he ordere
to talk as masters of those they had received.
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