[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. [444] Bell, _Churches and Monasteries of the Ṭûr ‘Abdîn_, p. 87 (31). [445] Sarre-Herzfeld, _Euphrat-und Tigris-Gebiet_, vol. i, Fig. 57; and vol. iii, Plate 68. [446] Ya’qubi, ed. de Goeje, p. 311. Dr. Moritz calls my attention to a passage in _Murudj al-Dhahab_ of Mas’ûdi (ed. Barbier de Meynard), vol. viii, p. 294, in which it is related that the khalif Rashid built wells, cisterns, and castles along the Mekkah road. These castles can, however, have been nothing but guard-houses. [447] Le Strange, _Lands of the Eastern Khalifate_, p. 77. [448] Lammens, ‘Ziâd ibn Abîhi,’ _Rivista degli Studi Orientali_, vol. iv, p. 232 and p. 656, note 2. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir, by Gertrude Lowthian Bell