[374] De Beylié, op. cit., p. 63.
[375] R. Velazquez Bosco, Medina Azzahra y Alamiriva, Plate 17.
[376] Idem, Plate 18.
[377] Amurath, Fig. 161.
[378] Andrae, Hatra, pt. ii, Fig. 37, Sect. e-f, and Fig. 152
[379] Dieulafoy, L’Art antique, vol. iv, Plate 9. Possibly there are others; the palaces of Fars must be re-examined.
[380] Amurath, Fig. 133. As regards the date, M. van Berchem calls my attention to a passage in the Fakhri of Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (ed. Derembourg, p. 445), in which it is stated that the khalif al-Mustanṣir built among other monuments such as the Mustanṣiriyyeh at Baghdâd and the bridge at Harbâ, khân al-Khernîna. I was therefore right in assigning it to the thirteenth century A.D.
[381] A drawing of the gate is published by Sarre-Herzfeld, Euphrat-und Tigris-Gebiet, vol. i, p. 13.
[382] Teano, Annali dell’ Islam, vol. i, p. 443.
[383] Lammens, ‘Ziâd ibn Abîhi,’ Rivista degli Studi Orientali, vol. iv, p. 242.