Identifier: byniletigrisnarr01budguoft (find matches)
Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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vered the famous basaltlion, with a man lying prostrate under him. The nativestold the Abbe Beauchamp about this lion in 1782, andhe cleared away the debris on and about it, and it isstill there. (3) The ruins of a fine brick building, 38 feet high, with ^ Like Major J. Rennell (see his Geographical System of Herodotus,London, 1800, p. 367) I have not been able to see the Frenchoriginal of M. Beauchamps article. The great French Diet, ofBiography states that it was published in the Journal des Sravansfor 1791, but the only copy of the work which I have been able toconsult, that in tlie British Museum Library, lacks the part for July,which presumably contains M. Beauchamps article. Major Rennellquoted an EngHsh translation of the article which appeared in theEuropean Magazine, vol. xxi, London, 1792, pp. 338-342, and likeRich, Ker Porter, Buckingham and many others, I have done thesame. Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811, London,1839, p. 8 ff. To face p. 288, vol. i.
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Richs Excavations at Babylon. 289 several walls, and piers 8 feet thick, called by the natives Al-Kasr, i.e., the Palace or The Fortress. Onepart of the wall was split into three, and was overturnedas if by an earthquake/ Close by this was a very old treewhich local tradition said had been specially spared fromthe Hanging Gardens that Ali might tether his horse toit after the Battle of Hillah. (4) The mound to the north of the Kasr called Babil. Here there were many dens of wild beasts,and in the cavities were large numbers of bats and owls.The site had an evil reputation among the natives, whodeclared that it was an abode of evil spirits. Rich set small parties of men to dig in various partsof the ruins. At Babil a party of twelve men dug into ahollow shaft sixty feet square, lined with bricks laid inbitumen, and in a passage leading from it he found acoffin and skeleton, and in the shaft itself a few otherobjects. Ker Porter and Buckingham^ visited Babylon anddiscussed Richs conclus

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