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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d by the famous canal of Nebuchadnezzar,the Nahr Malka, at its junction with the Tigris. To distinguish itfrom other towns of the same name it was called ScAeiWia lirl toOTiypT^Tos (Appian, Syr. 57) or Seleucia on the Tigris. Seleucus builthis city with bricks from Babylon, and it soon occupied both banksof the Nahr Malka and flourished greatly. As it prospered Babylondeclined. Trajans generals burnt a part of it to the ground, and duringthe reign of Lucius Verus it was completely destroyed (a.d. 162).When Severus came there he found the place a ruin like Babylon, onlyfar less extensive. The city of Ctesiphon is said by Ammianus to have been foundedby a Parthian called Vardanes, or Varanes, who chose for it a siteon the east bank of the Tigris, about three miles north of Seleucia. TheParthian kings made Ctesiphon their winter residence, and the citygrew and flourished until the fall of the Parthian dynasty about a.d.226. Some identify Ctesiphon with the Kasifya ^;?P3 of Ezra viii, 17.
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Arch of Ctesiphon identified with the White Palace. 177 ruin which stood a mile to the south of the site where thetrue White Palace had stood, and forgot that it hadever existed. Arab writers and others perpetuated themistake, and called the ruin in Ashanbur the WhitePalace and Hall of Chosroes indifferently.^ Ap-parently they did not realize that Ashanbur and Ctesiphonwere two quite distinct places, and, once having called the Hall of Chosroes the White Palace, it was easyto assume that Ashanbur was Ctesiphon, and to call theruin there the Arch of Ctesiphon.^ When the Sassanians (a.d. 226-651) founded theirdynasty, the first of this line of Persian kings built a newcapital a Httle to the south of Ctesiphon, and this iscommonly called Al-Madain,^ i.e., The Cities.* To^e south-east of this city Sapor began to build the famousEwan Kisra, ^^ ^\^\, which must have been a verylarge and magnificent palace, and it was finished byAberwiz, the son of Hormizd. The Sassanian city grewand flouris

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