'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎12] (23/474)

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CONTEMTS.
—Ruins of Babylon on the eastern bank of the river—The em
bankment—Mounds of Amran—The Kasr—The Mujelibe—Bricks
with inscriptions—Dens of wild beasts—Satyrs—The narrow pas
sage in the Mujelibe—Ruins on the western bank of the river-—
Birs Nemroud—Nebbi Eyoub, or the tomb of the prophet Job—
Considerable ruins near Jerbouiya—Articles of gold found among
ruins to the southward of Hillah—Ancient descriptions of Baby
lon—Sepulchre of Belus—Difficulty in discovering which of the
ruins is the sepulchre of Belus—Measurements of the Mujelibe and
the Birs Nemroud—Compared with that given by ancient authors of
the sepulchre of Belus—Question on which side of the river the tem
ple or sepulchre was situated—Generally-received opinion that it
stood on the east—The Birs a stupendous pile—Description of the
bricks at Babylon—Three kinds of cement—Concluding observations
p. 43—104
ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT BABYLON,
Suggested by the Recent Observations and Discoveries of
Claudius James Rich, Esq. By Major Rennell. [Reprinted
by permission of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries,
from the " Archseologia."]
CONTENTS.
General remarks on Mr. Rich's Memoir—His suggestion of the
probability that the Birs Nemroud is the representative of the
Tower of Belus—Probable change of the bed of the river—The
Mujelibe has all the appearance of being the remains of the Tower
of Belus—Position of the remains taken for those of the palaces—
Herodotus describes only one—Diodorus, two palaces—The mound
of the Kasr answers to the remains of the principal palace—In
this case a change of the course of the Euphrates must be admit
ted—Scanty notices respecting the mound of Amran—Remarks
on the deserted bed of the Euphrates—The Kasr not a Babylonish
structure—Seated on a mound of ruins of Ancient Babylon—Not
identified with them—The subterraneous passage—Birs Nemroud
—Has not the character of an artificial work—Whatsoever may
be its nature, it is too distant from the centre of the remains to be
the Tower of Belus—Important to trace the ditch and city-walls—If
the artificial canal through Babylon was straight, it may be ex
pected to have left traces—The ground about the mounds south
of the Mujelibe should be examined—It should be ascertained what
are the qualities of the substratum of the Mujelibe —Possibly it is
a natural eminence ...... p. 107—134