MUJALLIBAH, also called Maklouba, ruins on the east or left bank of the Euphrates, if miles N.N.W. from the bridge of Hillah, and 1 N. of the Amram Hill. Maklouba means overturned. The Mujallibah is a solid quadrangular mound, the sides of which face the cardinal points. Its height is not more than 90 or 100 feet in the loftiest part ; but Sir R. Porter assigns to it that of 140 feet. It is called by the natives El-Mujallibah, the overturned ; also Haroot and Maroot, from a tradition handed down, with little deviation, from time immemorial. This solid mound is regarded as the remains of the tower of Babel, an opinion adopted by Major Pennell. Near the Mujallibalt, and to the south of it, arc remains of the Kasr, as well as those of the hanging gardens ; and at rather more than six miles from Hillah, standing amidst and crowning the summit of extensive masses of ruin, is the Birs or Bars Nimrud. This ha.s been considered by Niebuhr, Rich, and others to be the celebrated temple of Being, and, according to Herodotus, it was separated from the palace by the river (lib. i. clxxx.) : L'un (des quartiers) est
remarquable par le palais du roi, et l'autrc par le lien consacre 4 Jupiter BeIns. The Kafir ruins near Hillah are 750 yards from Amram HU Still farther south is the hill of Amram ; • a more ex tensive, though less lofty mass than the last, which must comprise the relics of many and important edifices. To the E.N.E., at the distance of six miles from the Mujallibah, is an insulated and lofty conical mound, named Al-Heimer; and, lastly, a considerable conical mound, called the Tuebo, and by some considered to be the N.H. angle of the ancient city, stands about 15 miles to the north of those just enumerated. There are, besides, a vast number of inferior heaps, some of which indicate the courses of canals that irrigated the country, or supplied distant quarters of the city with water, and some are the remains of ramparts which probably enclosed and defended the principal edifices.—Rennell ; Mignan's Tr.; Ilerodoins,