[133] Its original name is doubtful. In the twelfth century it was called the Ma’shûk, for Ibn Jubeir alludes to it under that name in the twelfth century, and so does Ibn Baṭûṭah in the fourteenth century.
[134] Viollet has given a section of them, pl. xviii.
[135] Viollet’s plan, pl. xvii, is here more complete than mine.
[136] I give a plan of the three vaulted halls, but Viollet has made a sketch plan of the ground behind which furnishes indications of the whole scheme of the palace. The Beit el Khalîfah is perhaps the Dâr el ’Ammeh, the first palace built by Mu’taṣim upon the site of the monastery: Herzfeld, Sâmarrâ, p. 63.
[137] Ross distinguished in 1834 a substructure of “arches” (op. cit., p. 129) by which he must mean vaults like those at the ’Ashiḳ.
[138] An account of it, together with a sketch plan, was given by Ross, op. cit., p. 130.
[139] Viollet has given a plan of Abu Dulâf. Herzfeld did not publish it in his Sâmarrâ, for he had not at that time visited it, but he has since published a plan: Zeitschr. für Gesch. der Erdkunde zu Berlin, 1909, No. 7, pl. viii. My plan differs considerably from his, but only a re-examination of the mosque can prove which of us is right.
[140] This vestibule is present opposite the south gate of the Sâmarrâ mosque. Herzfeld has made an attempt to reconstruct the vestibule of Abu Dulâf. Viollet has given a bare indication of it, and this is all that exists. Viollet has also marked the line of an outer wall, which, as at Sâmarrâ, enclosed the precincts of the mosque.
[141] Abu Dulâf was probably built by Mutawakkil when he erected a whole new quarter three farsakhs north of Shnâs: Ya’ḳûbî, ed. de Goeje, p. 266.
[142] The spiral tower occurs also in Sassanian architecture, witness the Atesh Gah of Jur, Dieulafoy: L’Art ancien de la Perse, Vol. IV. p. 79.