"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." [‎٢‎٠] (٤٧٤/٤٧)

XX INTRODUCTION.
Darius continued the work of desolation begun
by Cyrus, and, not satisfied with destroying the outer
walls of Babylon, he shed much blood within the
city, and put to death 3000 of her principal citi
zens.
"Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were
upon the beasts, and upon the cattle : your carriages
were heavy loaden;* they are a burden to the weary
beast.f They stoop, they bow down together; they
could not deliver the burden ; but themselves are
gone into captivity."J
Jeremiah makes use of very similar language,—
" Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is
broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her
images are broken in pieces. And, in another
place, he is commanded to say, " I will punish Bel
in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth
that which he hath sAvallowed up: and the nations
shall not flow together any more unto him; yea, the
wall of Babylon shall fall."
We learn from Herodotus that Xerxes laid hands
upon the massive statue of gold in the Temple of
Belus, of which Darius had not ventured to make
These huge statues were generally formed of baked clay, faced
with bronze. It is not, therefore, surprising that the fragments of
them should be a sufficient load for several camels.
tM.de St. Croix thus renders these words of the prophet"Bel has
been broken ; Nebo has been shivered to pieces: and their ponderous
remains bow down the camels and the horses which are loaded with
them."
$ Isaiah xlvi, 1,2. $ Jeremiah 1. 2. || Jeremiah li. 44.