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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [339] (348/432)
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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EOUTES 54, 55
339
Braqgah. For the first 16 m. see 46, m. 410-426.
Tel eth-Thedeyein. Koute strikes S. The distances from
this point are rather uncertain, and in a good many
cases taken from maps.
Eoute follows a shallow depression called Silat eth-Thede-
yein. Water, probably brackish, might be got by
sinking wells.
Busafeh., the ancient Sergiopolis (St. Sergius martyred
here, 300 a.d .). Kusafeh, formerly of great importance, is
now ruined and almost abandoned owing to scarcity of
water. There are no springs, and the subsoil water is
230 feet below the surface. It is now the head-quarters
of the northern Anazeh. The chief ruins are those of
a large building surrounded by a wall originally 25 ft.
high which has hardly anywhere retained its original
height. Outside is an earthen rampart 20 ft. from the
wall. The W. side of the rampart has two towers. The
outer wall of the ancient town, which, like a large part of
the buildings inside, is built of stone blocks, was furnished
with a chain of large and small towers interspersed (20
large, 9 small), those at the four corners round, the rest
square. Inside is an arcade formed by the wall and a line
of pillars which runs the whole length of the wall. Here
and there are cross walls forming small cells. The outer
wall is loopholed, and is on the whole well preserved,
with the exception of a large breach on the E. side. The
ground within the wall is higher than that outside.
Within are ruins of churches and other buildings. In
the SW. corner are six large cisterns, now dry.
Track now runs WSW. over country level or intersected
only by low hills. The map illustrating the route of the
traveller who crossed this stretch of country in 1895
shows considerable windings, of which no indication is
given in his text.
Cross a low range of hills, the Jebel Ehuraibeh. ? Wells
or pools on 1.
Khirbet el-Farih ez-Zeireh, ruins of a fortified cistern.
Three old wells, quite dry. A few miles from this
place the track runs through some low hills, the Jebel
Seriyeh.
Seriyeh (Serianeh), reached through a narrow pass. The
place is practically uninhabited. Kuins of a stone wall
y 2
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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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