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Observations Connected with Astronomy and Ancient History, Sacred and Profane, of the Ruins of Babylon; As Recently Visited and Described by Claudius James Rich

Observations Connected with Astronomy and Ancient History, Sacred and Profane, of the Ruins of Babylon; As Recently Visited and Described by Claudius James Rich


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... office of Vicar General of Babylon, had frequent opportunities of visiting and examining them. His account was given to the public in the European Magazine for May, 1799, being a translation from the French original, and is more minute and satisfactory than any preceding one as to the situation of the ruins and the materials of which they are composed. Speaking of Delia Valle's ruin, he says it could never have been supposed to be the work of human hands, had it not been proved to be so by the layers of bricks, in regular order, burned in the fire, cemented with bitumen, and intermixed with osiers. He observed, impressed on most of them, the unknown characters already mentioned. He confirms all that Diodorus reports concerning the sculptured animals on the walls, and the paintings on the bricks, in the following remarkable passage: " This place and the Mount of Babel adjoining are commonly called by the Arabs Makloube, that is, topsy-turvy," (the Mujelibe of Mr. Rich). " I was informed by the master mason employed to dig for bricks, that the places from which he procured them were large thick walls, and sometimes spacious chambers. He has frequently found in them earthen vessels, engraved marbles, and about eight years ago a statue as large as life, which he threw back amongst the rubbish. On one wall of a chamber he found the figures of a cow, and of the sun and moon" (objects sacred in the astronomical worship of both Egypt and Babylon, ) "formed of varnished bricks. Sometimes idols of clay are found, representing human figures. I found one brick on which was a Lion (the zodiacal lion, ) and on others a half moon in relief*." The same master mason took him to a place, where the wall, built of the same furnace-baked bricks, appeared to have been sixty feet thick ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235156007
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235156001
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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