Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht
Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht
28 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS canals and outlying mounds, and " the prodigious extent " of the centre of all his attention,— the ruins of Babylon itself. And to all this he adds his personal observations on the modern fashion of building houses, and the present occupations and customs of the inhabitants of 'Iraq, interwoven with frequent references to the legends of the Arabs and the methods of their administration under Turkish rule, correctly assuming that " the peculiar climate of this district must have caused a similarity of habits and accommodations in all ages." But valuable as all these details are, they form, so to speak, only the framework for his faithful and minute picture of the" ruins of Babylon, 1 which we now reproduce, as far as possible with his own words : — " The whole of the area enclosed by the boundary on the east and south, and the river on the west, is two miles and six hundred yards in breadth from E. to W., and as much from Pietro della Valle's ruin [/. e., Babil in the north], to the northern part " of the southern city wall, " or two miles and one thousand yards to the most southerly mound of all. This space is again longitudinally subdivided into nearly half, by a straight line of the same kind with the boundary, but much its inferior in point of size. . . . These ruins consist of mounds of earth, formed by the decomposition of buildings, channelled and furrowed by the weather, and the surface of them strewed with pieces of brick, bitumen, and pottery." The most northern mound is Babil, called by the natives Mujeliba? "Full five miles distant from Hilla, and nine hundred and fifty yards from the river bank, it is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement of its sides, which point to the cardinal points. The elevation of the southeast or highest angle, is one hundred and 1 Comp. Map, No. 2 (Plan of Babylon). 2 Like Beauchamp, Rich states correctly that this term is sometimes also applied to the second mound, El-Qasr.
DURING l'jni CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 29 forty-one feet. 1 The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appearance of building it presents." Rich regarded this conspicuous mound as part of the royal precincts, possibly the hanging gardens. " A mile to the south of Babil is a large conglomeration of mounds, the shape of which is nearly a square of seven hundred yards 2 in length and breadth." It was designated Ei-
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forty-one feet. 1 The western face, which is <strong>the</strong> least elevated,<br />
is<br />
<strong>the</strong> most <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g on account of <strong>the</strong> appearance<br />
of build<strong>in</strong>g it presents." Rich regarded this conspicuous<br />
mound as part of <strong>the</strong> royal prec<strong>in</strong>cts, possibly <strong>the</strong> hang<strong>in</strong>g<br />
gardens.<br />
" A mile to <strong>the</strong> south of Babil is a large conglomeration<br />
of mounds, <strong>the</strong> shape of which is nearly a square of seven<br />
hundred yards 2 <strong>in</strong> length and breadth." It was designated<br />
Ei-
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