[364] Another good instance is at Tekrît; Amurath, Fig. 130.
[365] Perrot-Chipiez, vol. ii, Figs. 106, 116, 124, 136.
[366] Ocheïdir, Fig. 19.
[367] Herzfeld, Erster vorl. Bericht, p. 35.
[368] Idem, p. 23, and p. 18.
[369] The latter, though it is now at Baghdâd, was in all probability an import from northern Mesopotamia or northern Syria. Herzfeld, ‘Genesis’, Der Islam, 1910, Plates 1 and 2.
[370] The workmen at such a site as Warka may have been half bred with Greeks. The rinceaux on the door-jambs at Hatra, on the other hand, are better defined as combinations of the palmette and the acanthus than as modifications of the vine, and the typical Parthian decoration at Assur consists of various forms of the continuous pattern, the old oriental decorative scheme. Andrae, Hatra, pt. ii, Sheet 47, and Plate 12; Mitt. der D. O.-G., No. 42, Figs. 7 and 8.
[371] De Beylié, La Kalaa des Beni-Hammad, p. 41, quoting Ibn Hauqal.
[372] De Beylié, La Kalaa des Beni-Hammad, p. 41.
[373] The Wuswas ruin at Warka has furnished another example of the imitation of Babylonian decoration by Parthian builders. Mitt. der D O.-G., No. 51.