The bricks found at this point bear the name of Neriglissar.
There are also, besides the ramparts and the great masses of ruin above described, a vast number of scattered and irregular heaps of hillocks on both sides of the river, chiefly, however, upon the eastern bank.
Of these one only seems to deserve distinct mention.

This is the mound called El Homeira, "the Red," which lies due east of the Kasr, distant from it about 800 yards--a mound said to be 300 yards long by 100 wide, and to attain an elevation of 60 or 70 feet.

It is composed of baked brick of a bright red color, and must have been a building of a very considerable height resting upon a somewhat confined base.

Its bricks are inscribed along their edges, not (as is the usual practice) on their lower face.
The only other ancient work of any importance of which some remains are still to be traced is a brick embankment on the left bank of the stream between the Kasr and the Babil mounds, extending for a distance of a thousand yards in a line which has a slight curve and a general direction of S.S.W.The bricks of this embankment are of a bright red color, and of great hardness.

They are laid wholly in bitumen.