"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [ظ‎‎١‎٩‎٠] (٥٣٠/٣٨٥)

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876
Miles from
Meske-
neh
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13i
15
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16
17i
20i
224
26i
30
34
37^
401
47i
49
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LAND ROUTES
A broad ridge of hills begin on the 1. between the track
and the river.
About opposite this point there appears to be a grassy
enclosure called Anab.
About opposite this point is a ruin-mound called Tel
Sheikh Hasan.
The river comes in sight again. Euins near this point.
Track now follows the general course of the river.
Apparently about here are ruin-mounds called Munbayeh,
marking the site of ancient fortifications.
Track bends E. following a bend of the river.
Pass Tel Cruer. Track bends N, still following the coiitsg
of the river.
About here apparently the caravan-track leaves the river,
which makes a bend W. This neighbourhood is the
head-quarters of the Waledeh and is called Rumeileh.
Good grass.
Pass Jebel Kuleib, a conspicuous isolated hill | m. to r.
Enter a deep ravine in a bare ridge which crosses the track
from E. to W. The ridge slopes gently on the N. side.
Reach the edge of the Euphrates valley. Cultivation and
tent-settlements. Track now runs NNE.
Pass two mounds to r., Tel Abu Da'ameh and Telel-Banat.
Track now through desert.
Tel Mas udiyeli, mound and village. Here the river
bends NW. Track now runs along a dry stream-bed
through undulating country up to the plateau.
Pass Mersil Kebii', tower tomb to r. on the S. end of a
ridge. Only the S. wall remains of this tomb.
Pass Mersil Saghir, tower tomb to r. Several rock-cut
tombs in the hill-side near the tower.
Serrin village and stream in a cultivated plain shut in on
three sides by hills which continue in a NE. direction.
Qalat en-Nejm (see Moute 134) lies on the opposite bank.
The Arabs to the E. belong to the Beni Said, a sub
division of the Beni Pahl.
From Serrin there is said to be a track running generally easterly
across the little-known tract between the Euphrates and the
Belikh ; it crosses near Sarikamish the Harran—Meskeneli
track mentioned in Route 132 b under m. 59, and apparently
joins that route itself at Tel Jig-hleh (m. 541). The total"
distance may be some 40-50 m.