'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎187] (275/474)

APP.] BABYLONIAN ANTIQUES.
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pended, there is a hole drilled through The age
of bis sufficiently evident from its character and
appearance ; and that of is placed beyond all
doubt by the cuneiform inscription ; from both, the
antiquity of the skeleton may be inferred. was
brought to me at Bagdad from Hillah, but I have
not been able to discover in what part of the ruins it
was found. The first species of Babylonian cunei
form writing agrees with the third Persepolitan.
No. 4 is an inscription copied from a piece of
baked clay, in shape like a barrel, being thicker in
the centre than at the ends. It is 4| inches long
and 1^ in diameter. The inscription is perfect, and
the lacunse which are seen in the copy are not ille
gible places, but exist in the original. The cha
racter is in the second species of cuneiform writing,
of which no specimen has hitherto been published.
This species also occurs on small pieces of baked
clay of a darker and finer quality than the bricks;
they are generally covered with writing, and have
also sometimes figures on the edges in slight relief.
I found some of these pieces of clay in the sewer or
subterranean canal at the foundations of the Kasr,
the antiquity of which is thus in some measure
established. To ascertain in what particular part of
the ruins each antique is found, is a curious and
important subject of investigation; but one which
the little reliance that can be placed on the words of
the natives, and the extraordinary manner in which
they sometimes deceive without the slightest ap-