Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

[165] Bk. i, ch. 131.

[166] Bk. xv, ch. 3, 13-16.

[167] Hatra, pt. ii, p. 143.

[168] Ibid., pt. ii, p. 109.

[169] L’Art antique, vol. iv, p. 79.

[170] In the mosque of Ibn Ṭulûn at Cairo. The origin of the minaret is a vexed question which has been treated at length by Thiersch, Der Pharos, and continues to be the subject of controversy. Personally I subscribe to the view of Dr. Andrae and M. Dieulafoy.

[171] Koldewey, Die Tempel von Babylon und Borsippa, p. 66.

[172] Perrot-Chipiez, vol. ii, pp. 448-9.

[173] Koldewey, Die Tempel von Bab. und Bor., Plate 2; the palace has not yet been published, but the plan is given here. See, too, Das wieder erstehende Babylon.

[174] Puchstein, Boghaskoi, Plates 33, 42, 44, 46, and 47. The differences are so profound that I am led to the belief that the architects of southern Hittite palaces must have been governed by cultural influences other than those which obtained at Boghâz Keui. For example, the latitudinal disposition of the chambers which characterizes the southern khilâni is absent at Boghâz Keui. Can it be that southern Hittite architecture is in truth Syrian architecture under Hittite domination?