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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [173] (182/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THE EUPHEATES—EOUTE IV C (ii)
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Left Bank
Village of Imam Hamzeh about f m. from bank.
El-Hnsein village.
Es-Sa'ad village.
Ed-Dulas village.
Nahr Dulas running ENE.
Hilla, 1. bank quarter.
Canal running E. and SE.
Mounds and ruins of ancient Babylon, extending about
2| nr. N. to the mound called Babil. The ruin-mounds fall
into three groups: the southernmost is known as Tel e Imran,
with an outlying spur to S. called Jumjumeh.; the second,
some distance to the N., is called El-Qasr; and the third, sepa
rated by an interval of 2,500 yds. of flatter ground containing
a branch of the ancient Hahr en-Nil, is now called Eabil.
On the E. side of the first two groups are the traces of an
inner wall running between NNW. and N. by W., from
the S. end of which can be traced the remains of a larger
encircling wall which goes ENE. for about 2,000 yds., then
turns NW., and continues for nearly 3,500 yds. to the canal-
bed immediately S. of Babil. In the triangle formed by the
inner and outer walls is marshy ground. The modern Hilla—
Baghdad road runs through the ruins from S. to N., passing
just E. of the remains of the interior wall.
Excavations have been carried out for some fifteen years
on all the mounds by German archaeologists.
The ruins on the Tel c Imran are scattered and not
prominent. El-Qasr contains remains of the great palace
of Nebuchadnezzar (first half of sixth century e.g .). The
site of the palace is an irregular square of about 700 yds.,
and masses of burnt brick of considerable height are still
standing in the excavation-trenches.
The mound Babil stands by itself N. of the southern branch
of the Nahr en-Nil, and is protected on its N. and E. sides by
a continuation of the city wall. It is a great mound of
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume.
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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