[25] Aiwân is the Persian form, very commonly used in the Shâhnâmah. It has become lîwân in Arabic by the incorporation of the article al-Aiwân. (Note by Sir Charles Lyall.)
[26] Ocheïdir, p. 5.
[27] It appears in one of M. Massignon’s photographs; Mission en Mésopotamie, Plate XX
[28] Dr. Reuther observed that in No. 69 the vault at the north end had been constructed without centering, while the vault at the south end had been constructed over a centering; Ocheïdir, p. 43.
[29] Rooms 63 and 65 are vaulted without centering; Ocheïdir, p. 5.
[30] As has been mentioned on p. 10, the original intention was to carry this same wall round the fourth side (the north side) also; but when the great outer wall was added to the scheme, it replaced the smaller, less important wall of the first design.
[31] The authors of Ocheïdir restore a south wall running from No. 150 to No. 152, thus converting the open space to the south of 141 into a court on the analogy of court F. I saw no trace of such a wall.
[32] Dr. Reuther gives a detailed photograph (Ocheïdir, Fig. 50), showing a band of rhomboids round the window frame.
[33] It was visited by Massignon and appears in his map, Mission en Mésopotamie, vol. i, p. 21.
[34] Cf. the crenellated motive round the archivolt of the doors of corridors 5 and 6 at Ukhaiḍir.