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

by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

[334] Amurath, Fig. 170.

[335] Unpublished. I have all the photographs and M. Max van Berchem has studied the inscriptions from them.

[336] It was shown at the exhibition of Mohammadan art held in Munich in 1910, and was numbered in the catalogue 2696 (Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst, vol. ii, Plate 122).

[337] An early Syrian example, possibly Nabataean, is to be found at Umtâ’iyyeh; Butler, Ancient Architecture in Syria, Sect. A, pt. ii, p. 89. Cf. too the façade of the basilical hall at Mshattâ. (Schultz-Strzygowski, Mschattâ, Plate 4), and an interesting example on the tambour of the church of the ‘Adhrâ at Ḥakh; Bell, Churches and Monasteries of the Ṭur ‘Abdin, p. 84 (28).

[338] Dieulafoy, L’Art antique, vol. iv, Plates 6 and 7.

[339] Miss. scient. en Perse, p. 364.

[340] Strzygowski, Mschattâ, p. 354; Herzfeld, ‘Genesis,’ Der Islam, vol. i, p. 118.

[341] Sieglin-Schreiber, Die Nekropole von Kôm esch Schukâfa, Figs. 214, 215.

[342] Strzygowski, Mschattâ, Fig. 36.

[343] Brünnow-Domaszewski, vol. ii, p. 185, Figs. 760-5, and Plate 49.