A dictionary of the . ar. Thetower is representedas in the form ofa pyramid, built inseven receding stories, 26 feet high, each of the last four being15 feet high. On the seventh storywas a temple or ark, perhaps with astatue of the god Belus. George Smith, the Assyriologist (andthe Encyc/opvcdia Britannica, vol. 155, ninth edition, adopts Smithsview), says, The Birs Nimrftd is mostprobably the tower of Babel of thebook of Genesis. Mr. Smith describesanother ruin called Babil or Mvjellibaas the one which in his view coversthe site of the temple of Belus, andthe great tower of Ba
A dictionary of the . ar. Thetower is representedas in the form ofa pyramid, built inseven receding stories, 26 feet high, each of the last four being15 feet high. On the seventh storywas a temple or ark, perhaps with astatue of the god Belus. George Smith, the Assyriologist (andthe Encyc/opvcdia Britannica, vol. 155, ninth edition, adopts Smithsview), says, The Birs Nimrftd is mostprobably the tower of Babel of thebook of Genesis. Mr. Smith describesanother ruin called Babil or Mvjellibaas the one which in his view coversthe site of the temple of Belus, andthe great tower of Babylon (not Babel).Bin Nimr&d seems to have been a tem-ple dedicated to the heavenly bodies,and the inscriptions on cylinders foundthere record that Nebuchadnezzar re-built the edifice after it had been leftunfinished by others. Further excava-tions may solve these unsettled ques-tions. See Rawlinsons Herodotus, andGeorge Smiths Assyrian Discoveries,1S75. BABYLON (Greek form of Babel),the noted capital of the Chalda?an and. Plan of Babylon, showing the largest extent, as given by Herodotus, and the smaller, quoted by Ctesias, with the ruius according to Oppert. each placed j Babylonian empires, situated on bothupon the south-western side of the one sides of the Euphrates river, about 200below, and each of the first three being I miles above its junction with the Tigris, 91 BAB BAB 300 miles from the Persian Gulf, andabout 60 miles south-west from themodern city of Bagdad. The valley isbroad, and the Euphrates is now about600 feet wide and 18 feet deep at thisplace. Extent of the City.—It was the lar-gest known ancient city in to Herodotus, the city was avast square on both sides of the Euphra-tes, enclosed by a double line of walls,about 56 miles in circuit and includingabout 200 square miles. Ctesias andothers make the circuit about 42 miles,enclosing about 106 square miles. Thewalls, according to Herodotus, wereabout 335 feet high and 75 feet ,
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