[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. [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. [384] Sir Charles Lyall sends me the following note: “There is a masdjedâ at Medâin Ṣâliḥ. Masdjid is the “place of prostration” (sadjada) and this use of ‘sadjada’ is anterior to Islâm. See al-’A’shâ’s line: “Whoever sees Haudhah prostrates himself (yasdjud) without delay, when he puts on the crown above his turban or lays it down.”‘ [385] As, for instance, the _khuṭbah_ of ‘Amr ibn al-’Aṣ in his mosque at Fusṭâṭ (Corbett, ‘The Mosque of ‘Amr,’ _Journal of the R. Asiatic Soc._, 1890, p. 768), and the _khuṭbah_ of Ziyâd ibn Abîhi at Baṣrah (Lammens, op. cit., p. 36). [386] Lammens, ibid., p. 31; and Becker, ‘Zur Geschichte des islamischen Kultus,’ _Der Islam_, vol. iii, p. 394. [387] Teano, op. cit., vol. i, p. 438. [388] Idem, vol. ii, pt. i, p. 68; and Becker, _Die Kanzel im Kultus des alten Islam_, p. 3 (Orientalische Studien Theodor Nöldeke gewidmet). [389] Teano, op. cit., vol. iii, p. 965. [390] The Copts built the façade, the Greeks the side and back walls; see Becker’s very interesting note, _Der Islam_, vol. iii, p. 403. [391] Balâdhuri, _Futûḥ_, ed. de Goeje, p. 6. Yâqût, _Mu’djám_, ed. Wüstenfeld, vol. iv, p. 466.