"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." [‎١‎٨‎٩] (٤٧٤/٢٧٧)

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BABYLONIAN ANTIQUES.
wards; and, what is very remarkable, when laid in
bitumen, that cement is never found adhering to the
face, though it always sticks to the back of the
brick. The people employed in the ruins of Baby
lon to procure bricks told me that this 'was effected
by strewing some powdered lime over the bitumen
when the brick was laid on its face in it: but
I know not what authority they have for this opi
nion. In my first Memoir I doubted that reeds had
ever been employed where bitumen was used ;
have since seen some bricks with bitumen adhering
to them, on which the impression of a reed mat was
so strongly marked as to induce me to change my
opinion.
The number and variety of the stamps bear no
proportion to the number of the bricks. I have
as yet only seen four kinds, with some varieties of
each.
No. 6 is an inscription of seven lines, of which
Dr. Grotefend has only seen an imperfect copy.
Septilinear inscription is the most common of all ;
out of nineteen bricks taken at random, fourteen
were of this sort. There are several varieties of
this kind, differing from each other only in a cha
racter or two.
No. 7 is an inscription of six lines. The speci
men here given is remarkable by deviating in many
places from the other kind of brick inscriptions,
especially in the omission of almost the whole series
of characters which form the fifth line in the septi-
linear inscriptions.