[105] Strabo, xvi, 1, 5.
[106] Chaldaea, at Mughair, sun-dried brick; Perrot-Chipiez, vol. ii, p. 232. Egypt, at Dair el-Baḥri, 18th Dynasty; Perrot-Chipiez, vol. i, p. 536; and a brick dome at Abydos; Choisy, Histoire de l’Architecture, vol. i, p. 19. Syria, dolmenic tomb at Ridjm el Melfûf; Annual of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1911, p. 9. Knossos; Evans, Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, p. 139. Numerous other examples are cited by Durm in two articles in the Jahreshefte des öst. arch. Instituts, vol. x, 1907.
[107] Mitt. der D. O.-G., No. 27, p. 29.
[108] In one of these only is the springing of the vault preserved. Bell, Amurath to Amurath, Fig. 109.
[109] Sâmarrâ, Amurath, Fig. 154.
[110] Cf. the stone vaults at Medinet Abu, Delbrück, op. cit., pt. ii, p. 81.
[111] Dieulafoy, L’Art antique de la Perse, vol. iv, Fig. 10; Mitt. der D. O.-G., No. 40, Fig. 10, a late Assyrian tomb.
[112] Dieulafoy, L’Art antique, vol. iv, Plate 7.
[113] Bell, Churches and Monasteries of the Ṭûr ‘Abdîn, p. 100 (44).
[114] Idem, pp. 65 (9), 71 (15), &c.