"سرد لرحلة إلى موقع مدينة بابل في ١٨١١، طُبعت الآن لأول مرة: مذكرات على الأطلال؛ مع نقوش من الخرائط المدبئية للمؤلف: ملاحظات على طبوغرافية بابل القديمة،بقلم الرائد رينيل؛ في إشارة إلى المذكرات: مذكرات ثانية على الأطلال؛ في إشارة إلى ملاحظات الرائد رينيل: مع سرد لرحلة إلى برسبوليس: طُبعت الآن لأول مرة، مع كتابات مسمارية نسخت في برسبوليس ولم تُنشر من قبل: كتبها الراحل كلوديوس جيمس ريتش، المحترم، المقيم البريطاني السابق لشركة الهند الشرقية في بغداد. حررته أرملته." [‎٦‎٨] (٤٧٤/١٥٠)

68 MEMOIR ON THE RUINS
gone the action of fire. The river appears to have
encroached here, for I saw a considerable quantity
of burnt bricks, and other fragments of building in
the water.
A mile to the north of the Kasr, or full five miles
distant from Hillah, and nine hundred and fifty
yards from the river bank, is the last ruin of this
series, which has been described by Pietro della
Valle, who determines it to have been the Tower of
Belus, an opinion adopted by Rennell. The natives
call it Mukallibe (ajju) or, according to the vul
gar Arab pronunciation of these parts, Mujelibe,
meaning overturned; they sometimes also apply this
teim to the mounds of the Kasr. It is of an oblong
shape, irregular in its height and the measurement of
its sides, which face the cardinal points ; the northern
side being two hundred yards in length, the southern
two hundred and nineteen, the eastern one hundred
ana eighty-two, and the western one hundred and
thirty-six; the elevation of the S.E. or highest angle,
one hundred and forty-one feet. The western face,
which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on
account of the appearance of building it presents*
Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with
interruptions, built of unburnt bricks mixed up with
chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with clay-
mortar of great thickness, having between every
layer a layer of reeds ;and on the north side are also
some vestiges of a similar construction. The S.W.
* See accompanying Plate.