'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎254] (388/474)

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JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS,
sphinx at each end. The sculpture here is a
king, with all his guards drawn out, giving audience
to an ambassador.*
The people brought us some wild figs : they grow
about the hills and among the walls of the ruins.
The fruit is small, but many of them were well
tasted.
August Qlth. —I went in the morning to copy
the inscriptions at Nakshi Regib.t The Seyid
finished copying the three tablets of the north wall
of the eastern portal, over the colossal sphinxes.];
Those on the opposite or south wall of the same
are exactly similar. The inscriptions on the west or
entrance portal are different from those of the east
portal, but the same also on both the walls. The in
scriptions of the west portal still remain to be copied;
and I fear I shall go away without effecting this. I
would gladly have copied both portals, but my head
will not allow me; as, in order to accomplish it, I
must mount on a ladder. § However, the Seyid was
accustomed to hear much from Bellino about cunei
form inscriptions, and I have exercised him, under
my own eye, to help me.
* In Mr. Rich's Journal this sentence is preceded by an N.B.; so
that it does not appear certain whether it is connected with the pre
ceding one or not, or whether the sculptures here described are meant
to refer to the building just before mentioned, or to some other, and
merely inserted here by way of memorandum. This can only be de
cided by some traveller when on the spot.—E d.
t See Plate 12. J See Plates 24, 25, 26.
$ I copied the high inscriptions by means of a telescope fastened to
a staff.