[67] Since this was written I learn that Ḥiyyadhiyyeh was visited in 1912 by Prince Sixtus of Bourbon and Professor Musil, see the _Vorbericht_ of the latter in the report of the K. Akad. d. Wiss. in Wien, 1913, No. 1, p. 11. Journeying southwards from Ukhaiḍir they passed through Ḥiyyadhiyyeh, which is described as ‘eine festungsartige kleine Ortschaft am rechten Ufer des wâdi al-Kherr’. On the way from Ḥiyyadhiyyeh to Nedjef they passed by Ṭaquṭqâneh (Niebuhr’s Tukteqâne) and Ruḥeimeh. [68] Le Strange, _Lands of the Eastern Khalifate_, p. 76. [69] Massignon, op. cit., p. 41. [70] Mentioned by Massignon under Ruḥbeh, op. cit., p. 41. [71] _Erster vorläufiger Bericht über die Ausgrabungen von Sâmarrâ_, p. 40. [72] _Mas’ûdi, Marûdj al-Dhahab_, ed. Barbier de Meynard, vol. vii, p. 192. [73] See Lane, _Arabic and English Dictionary_, under _riwâq_. [74] Rothstein, op. cit., p. 130. [75] Idem, pp. 69, 74, 81. [76] Bell, _Amurath to Amurath_, p. 139. [77] Sarre-Herzfeld, _Iranische Felsreliefs_, p. 237. [78] _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, pt. ii. There is some doubt as to whether Zindjirli was actually occupied by Hatti. No Hittite inscriptions have been discovered there; but further researches have shown that architecturally Zindjirli belongs to a group of settlements the Hittite origin of which it is impossible to doubt. Professor Garstang has found a khilâni palace at Sakcheh Geuzu (_Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology_, vol. v, Plate 3), Baron Oppenheim a very remarkable palace of the same type at Râs ul-’Ain, of which the plan has not yet been published. [79] _Ausgrabungen_, p. 173, and Fig. 82, p. 184. [80] _Ausgrabungen_, Fig. 83, p. 184. [81] Puchstein, ‘Die Säule in der assyrischen Architektur,’ _Jahrbuch des k. d. arch. Instituts_, 1892, p. 11. [82] Koldewey gives a chronological series of Assyrian khilânis and shows that the development in Assyria was a faithful copy of the development which he had noted at Zindjirli, op. cit., pp. 188 et seq. [83] Dr. Herzfeld suggests that it may have been transmitted to the Achaemenids through Media; _Iranische Felsreliefs_, p. 186. [84] Dr. Herzfeld calls attention to the significant fact that the Babylonian theatre, while it exhibits a good Greek plan, is built of sun-dried brick, doubtless by local workmen, and is technically indistinguishable from local structures of an earlier age. _Iranische Felsreliefs_, p. 225. To a reconstruction of a later period belongs the stage, with its burnt brick foundations, wooden superstructure, and ornaments of carved stucco, and here too technique and material are of local origin. The theatre is not yet published. A very short account of the excavations is to be found in _Mitt. der D. O.-G._, No. 21, p. 9, and No. 22, pp. 4 et seq.; a longer description in Koldewey, _Das wieder erstehende Babylon_, p. 293.