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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [402r] (806/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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TEN HISTORICAL SITES
635
implies. Both wings of the facade survived until 1909, when the left wing
collapsed. The vault was open to the air at the eastern end and had royal
chambers on the west. This building was preserved because the Moslem
conquerors used it as a mosque. On the right or western bank the city
wall of Ctesiphon encloses an area of 1,000 acres and can be traced both
Fig. 96. Ukhaidhir. The three-storied block seen from inside
the central courtyard
in the mound called Sur and elsewhere. A Christian church, possibly of
the sixth century, has also been excavated in western Ctesiphon within
the little mound of Qasr Bint al Qadi; it is roofed by a barrel vault,
29 feet wide, supported on a pillared wall.
Hatra (photos. 25, 116)
The ruins of Hatra contain the only extensive buildings in Iraq of
Parthian date. The town itself only flourished for two or three centuries,
when it guarded the direct caravan route across the Jazira from Parthian
Ctesiphon to Roman Nisibis. After successfully defying the Roman
Emperor Trajan in a.d. 116 and Severus in 198, it was finally taken and
sacked after the end of the Parthian Empire by the Sassanid king Sapor I in
about a.d. 245. The town, roughly quadrilateral and protected by a thick
curving wall, with bastions every 170 yards, is over 3 miles in perimeter,
and has four gates, the main gate being on the east. In the centre the
ruined palace-temple of the Sun, itself fortified, consists of a range of
seven open-fronted liwan halls. The sanctuary is a square vaulted build
ing behind one of the halls, surrounded by a narrow vaulted passage and
lit only by the door. The town contains many small and closely packed
houses, which have been excavated, and many tombs.
Ukhaidhir (figs. 31, 96; photo. 122)
Al Ukhaidhir,‘the little green place’, built in the western desert, 28 miles
south-west of Karbala at a point where water collects and vegetation grows
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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