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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [302] (311/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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302
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Anali
183|
184i
188|
195i
197^
201
2094
210
211i
2121
212|
216|
220|
222i
228±
232i
236i
243
Qabr el-Abu Atiq, ruins, 150-200 ft. above the Euphrates
the ground falling steeply to an old bed of the river.
Descend and cross a diy stream-bed.
Emerge from the defile on to the plain.
Tel el-Khumeidah, isolated hill about 2 m. to 1.
Eeach the Euphrates at the upper end of a western bend.
El-'Aleh. Afadleh tent-village in tamarisk jungle li-2 m.
to 1.
El-Kh.as, tent-village in a clearing.
Track now passes through tamarisk thicket.
Pass Imam Abu Saideb, Moslem shrine and cemetery.
Jedideb, tent-village.
Kbirbet ed-Dukbujeb.
Ebirbet Hadawi.
Meida. Grassy mounds near the river. Some distance
beyond this point an area surrounded with a deep ditch
is crossed.
Kubur el-Jebel. Encampments in the neighbourhood.
Pass the Jebel Muukbir, a volcanic ridge 1 m. to r.
which rises several hundred feet above the plain. From
the summit the Jebel Munkhir esh-Sharqi can be seen
lying about 3 m. E., and almost due N. on the horizon
rising ground called Jebel 'Ukala (Tulaba).
Limestone tel with traces of masonry on the top.
Eeach the Belikb and cross by a ford or a light wooden
bridge. In the early spring of 1908 the Belikh was a
muddy brook. In Dec. 1879 the ford was girth high,
and the river seemed likely to be unfordable after heavy
rain. Cross marshy ground as far as Eaqqah.
Tel Zedan, hill running N. and S. about 2 m. to r.
Haqqab.
Track now WNW., partly in the plain, partly along the
edge of the desert plateau.
Euin of Hiraklia, a rectangular fortress, almost square,
with a series of vaulted chambers forming the outer parts
of the block and apparently larger vaulted chambers filling
up the centre. At the angles are four round towers. The
masonry is mostly of unsquared stones laid in a bed of
very coarse mortar mixed with small stones, but the
vaults are of brick tiles. The fortress is ringed round
by an outer wall now completely ruined. Beyond it to
the S. runs a dyke, and beyond the dyke, about 550 yds.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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