[2] The Persian influence had probably filtered through Egypt, for similar leaf motives are to be found in Cairo, for example in a fine bit of woodwork in the Museum: Herz Bey, _Catalogue Raisonné_, fig. 24. The prototype must be looked for in the plaster decorations of Ibn Ṭûlûn. [3] M. Saladin believes this entrelac to be of Damascene origin. _Manuel d’Art Musulman_, i. p. 115. [4] Ed. Reinaud, p. 267. He wrote in A.D. 1321. [5] Anabasis, Bk. I. ch. iv, 10. [6] _Zur antiken Topographie der Palmyrene_, p. 31. [7] Mr. Hogarth also noticed that Bâb is marked out of its true place: _Annual of the British School at Athens_, XIV. p. 185. [8] Plutarch: _In Crass_. [9] Sachau saw it: _Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien_, p. 148. [10] Ed. de Goeje, p. 162. He wrote in A.D. 864. [11] Manbij is the name used in literary Arabic, but it is noticeable that in the colloquial the word approaches more nearly to the earliest form, being pronounced Bumbuj. [12] Eskî Serûj according to Chapot: _La frontière de l’Euphrate_, p. 306. [13] _Geography_, Bk. XVI. ch. i. 27. [14] Ritter: _Erdkunde_, Vol. VII. p. 961. [15] Procopius makes the same observation: _De Bell. Per._, II. 20. [16] It is so given in the Antonine Itinerary: Hierapoli--Thilaticomum--Bathnas--Edissa. [17] Ammianus Marcellinus, Bk. XXIII. ch. ii. 7. [18] Chapot, _op. cit._ p. 281. [19] Chapot believes that the passage was effected at a point north of Cæciliana, which would fit in with Tell Aḥmar: _op. cit._ p. 254, note 5. [20] Mr. Hogarth suggests that the Abbess Ætheria crossed at Tell Aḥmar on her way to Edessa: _loc. cit._ p. 183.