[265] In any case the maxim laid down by Dr. Herzfeld (’Genesis,’ Der Islam, vol. i. p. 110) is misleading. It is too hasty a generalization and it does not cover the facts. At Ukhaiḍir door openings are sometimes wider and sometimes narrower than the arches above them, and it is doubtful whether the same is not the case at Sarvistân. See above, p. 79.
[266] Mschattâ, Plate 6.
[267] So it appears to me, but I am conscious that the roots may go deeper. Damascus, Apamea, and Antioch are Seleucid foundations, and we know nothing of the Seleucid city plan.
[268] Ebersolt, Le Grand Palais de Constantinople, pp. 162-7.
[269] Bury, A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the fall of Irene to the accession of Basil I, p. 132.
[270] Herzfeld, Erster vorl. Bericht, p. 33.
[271] Sprenger-Michaelis, Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte, 9th ed., vol. i, p. 60.
[272] Perrot-Chipiez, vol. ii, Fig. 101.
[273] Dieulafoy, L’Acropole de Suse, Figs. 93, 100, 132.
[274] Chaldaea and Susiana, p. 174.