'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [47] (56/432)
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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as far as the Nahr er-Easasi (dry canal) the ground is covered
with ruins. At the mouth of the arm is Qit'at A1 Bu Tsa,
a ruined enclosure. ^1,250 yds. NE. of this is Abu Delef,
a large mosque, of which little remains except detached
columns or arcades, and part of a spiral minaret to the
N. About 600 yds. N. by W. of this minaret is a
spring, surrounded by ruins. N. of Qit'at A1 Bu Tsa, on the
1. bank of the arm, at T 760 and T l,500 yds., are walled
enclosures.
Qasr el-Mutawakkil (palace of Caliph Mutawakki!, ninth
century) lies near the point where the arm leaves the
main stream, ruin-heaps extending over an area of about
1,400 yds. square.
The Nahr er-Easasi, bending from NNW. to NW., about
2,000 yds. NNE. of Abu Delef, skirts Qasr el-Mutawakkil
on the E. From the bend the dry bed of Nahr en-Neifeh
runs in a NNW. and N. direction.
From Sinn Yehudiyeh the main stream bends WNW. for
^2 m.
Upper entrance to arm of Tigris (see m. 114)! ruins of
Qasr el-Mutawakkil, about f m. from bank. Low con
glomerate cliffs.
Head of Nahr er-Easasi (Nahrawan). This is marked
by an opening in the conglomerate cliffs. The bottom of
the canal was some 15 ft. above the level of the river in
May 1910.
Conglomerate cliffs end.
In this neighbourhood Haraqiyat rocks near 1. bank, sub
merged in flood season. They are said to project 5 ft. in
low water.
Dur village, of about 600 houses, situated on some mounds
near the river-bank, between the Tigris and dry course of
Nahr en-Neifeh. The inhabitants are all Mohammedans,
for the most part raftmen and carriers. The place is the
seat of a Mudir. (The site is an ancient one. In a. d . 363
the Eoman army in its retreat from Ctesiphon, after the
death of the Emperor Julian, found here the city of Dura.)
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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.
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- 1 volume (214 folios)
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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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