"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." [‎٢‎٥‎٧] (٤٧٤/٤٠٠)

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impossible to copy, from the roughness of the face of
the rock, but which I have no doubt would prove
very interesting. Further on are four more inscrip
tions on the figures disputing the diadem; two m
Sassanian, and one in Greek, are on the breast of
Artaxerxes' horse; and one, much defaced, in Sas
sanian, consisting of two lines, which is on the
breast of the Arsacidan king's horse. This it
would be very interesting to have; but I could
not get at it without ascending a ladder; besides
which there seemed but small hopes of my being able
to make anything out of it.
The rock is coarser grained than at Nakshi
Regib, and apparently has never been polished. The
figures look roughly hewn, and are in nowise to
be compared with those of Nakshi Regib, of which
Porter's drawings are admirable. The faces, how
ever, are all preserved at Nakshi Rustum ; in othei
respects the costume is nearly the same. The
Arsacidan king has always a fillet round his head
with an open crown, his hair being gathered up
through the top in curls: below the crown it falls on
his shoulders in carrots; his beard also is in carrots.
The Sassanian king has always the curious balloon
on his head, and his hair sticking out on each side
in a preposterous bush of curls.
On the point over the last sculptures is the sha t
of a column, about five feet high, still standing, and
the remains of a staircase up to it. I this to
have been a fire -altar.