[65] Encyclopédie de l’Islam, under Anbâr. The site was ancient.
[66] Reisebeschreibung, vol. ii, p. 236.
[67] Since this was written I learn that Ḥiyyadhiyyeh was visited in 1912 by Prince Sixtus of Bourbon and Professor Musil, see the Vorbericht of the latter in the report of the K. Akad. d. Wiss. in Wien, 1913, No. 1, p. 11. Journeying southwards from Ukhaiḍir they passed through Ḥiyyadhiyyeh, which is described as ‘eine festungsartige kleine Ortschaft am rechten Ufer des wâdi al-Kherr’. On the way from Ḥiyyadhiyyeh to Nedjef they passed by Ṭaquṭqâneh (Niebuhr’s Tukteqâne) and Ruḥeimeh.
[68] Le Strange, Lands of the Eastern Khalifate, p. 76.
[69] Massignon, op. cit., p. 41.
[70] Mentioned by Massignon under Ruḥbeh, op. cit., p. 41.
[71] Erster vorläufiger Bericht über die Ausgrabungen von Sâmarrâ, p. 40.
[72] Mas’ûdi, Marûdj al-Dhahab, ed. Barbier de Meynard, vol. vii, p. 192.
[73] See Lane, Arabic and English Dictionary, under riwâq.
[74] Rothstein, op. cit., p. 130.