The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . hara, between the Affej and the Shatramarshes; at Tel-Ede, six miles from Hammam, tothe south-south-west; at Tel-Medineli and Tel-Sifr,in the Shatra marshes, to the south-east of Tel-Edeand the north-east of Senkereh ; at Yokha, east of H. Rawlinson regards the existingbuildings at Akkcirkuf and Hammamas also of the Parthian age, thoughoccupying the sites of earlier (hal-dasan cities. Hammam is thought to be theGulaba of the Cuneiform Inscriii-ti
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . hara, between the Affej and the Shatramarshes; at Tel-Ede, six miles from Hammam, tothe south-south-west; at Tel-Medineli and Tel-Sifr,in the Shatra marshes, to the south-east of Tel-Edeand the north-east of Senkereh ; at Yokha, east of H. Rawlinson regards the existingbuildings at Akkcirkuf and Hammamas also of the Parthian age, thoughoccupying the sites of earlier (hal-dasan cities. Hammam is thought to be theGulaba of the Cuneiform Inscriii-tions (Loftus, p. 113); but thisidentification is uncertain. Chap. I. SECONDARY CITIES. 29 Hamman, and jSTuifdyji, nortli of Warka; at Le-tliami, near Niffer ; at Iskhuriyeli, north of Zibbliyeh,near the Tigris; at Tel Kheir and Iel Dhalab, in theupper part of the alluvium, to the north of Akkerkuf;at Duair, on the right bank of the Euphrates, southof Hilleh and of the Birs Nimrnd; atJeb Mehari, south of the Bahr-i-Nedjif; at Mai Bat-tush, near Swaje ; at Tel-el-Lahm, nine or ten milessouth of Suk-es-Sheioukh, and at Abu Shahrein, in. Hammam. the same neighbourhood, on the very border of theArabian desert/ Further investigation will pro-bably add largely to this catalogue, for many partsof Babylonia are still to some extent unexplored. 1 8eeFYasevs Mesopotamia and As-syria, pp. 150-155 ; Ainsworths Be-searclies in Mesupotamia, p, 127 and]i. 177 ; Ross and Lviicli, in Journal of Geographical Society, vol. ix. ] et seq.; Lottiis and hiu-siana, passim, nwA Journal of Geoc/ra-phical Society, vol. xxvi. pp. 133-144. 30 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. T. This is especially true of the tract between the Shat-el-Hie and the lower Tigris,^ a district which, accord-ing to the geographers, abounds with ruins. No
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