Title: Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert: being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British museum
Identifier: amongtheruins00laya (find matches)
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, 1817-1894
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Text Appearing Before Image: El Kasr Mound, (Mound of Kasr). The Kasr, or Palace, of Rich; but the Arabs call it the Mujelibe, or the overturned.
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The Mujelibe or Kasr (from Rich). CHAPTER XXII. THE CHIEFS OF HILLAH. PRESENT OF LIONS. THE SON OF THE GOVERNOR. DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN. ZAID. THE RUINS OF BABYLON. CHANGES IN THE COURSE OF THE EUPHRATES. THE WALLS. VISIT TO THE BIRS NIMROUD. DESCRIPTION OF THE RUIN. VIEW FROM IT. EXCAVATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE MOUND OF BABEL IN THE MUJELIBE OR KASR. THE TREE ATHELE. EXCAVATIONS IN THE RUIN OF AMRAN. BOWLS, WITH INSCRIPTIONS IN HEBREW AND SYRIAC CHARACTERS. TRANSLATIONS OF THE INSCRIPTIONS. THE JEWS OF BABYLONIA. My first care on arriving at Hillah was to establish friendly relations with the principal inhabitants of the town as well as with the Turkish offi- cer in command of the small garrison that guarded its mud fort. Osman Pasha, the general, received me with courtesy and kindness, and during the remainder of my stay gave me all the help I could require. On my first visit he presented me with two lions. One was nearly of full size, and was well known in the bazars and thoroughfares of Hillah, through which he was allowed to wander unrestrained. The inhabitants could accuse him of no other objectionable habit than that of taking possession of the stalls of the butchers, who, on his approach, made a hasty retreat, leaving him in undisturbed possession of their stores, until he had satisfied his hunger and deemed it time to depart. He would also wait the coming of the large kuffas, or wicker boats, of the fishermen, and driving away their owners.

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