[434] Ibn al-Athîr, vol. ii, p. 349.
[435] Ibn al-Athîr, vol. iv, p. 328. Yâqût’s alternate site, between ‘Ain al-Tamr and Damascus, must therefore be rejected. Ibn al-Athîr refers to it in this passage in connexion with the revolt of Shabîb, during the vicegerency of Ḥadjdjâdj.
[436] Flandin-Coste, Voyage en Perse, p. 27.
[437] Dieulafoy, L’Art antique de la Perse, vol. iv, Fig. 26.
[438] ‘Genesis der islamischen Kunst,’ Der Islam, vol. i, p. 112.
[439] Butler, Ancient Architecture in Syria, Sect. B, pt. i, p. 32.
[440] The arches of the tomb known as Ṣlaibiyyeh are the best preserved. Amurath to Amurath, Figs. 150 and 151, and Herzfeld, Erster vorl. Bericht, Fig. 6. Dr. Herzfeld found in it three graves, and he believes it to have been the mausoleum of the khalifs Muntaṣir, Mu’tazz, and Muhtadi.
[441] Amurath, Figs. 43 and 44.
[442] Sarre-Herzfeld, Iranische Felsreliefs, pp. 232 et seq.
[443] Third and second century B. C., Delbrück, Hellenistische Bauten in Latium, pt. ii, p. 68.