Wāsit: The Sixth Season's Excavations |
Common terms and phrases
Abbasid Al-Hajjâj Al-Manâra AL-MUQADDASI al-Muqtadir albarello archæological Baghdad BAHSHAL Base-sherd in buff blue paint blue-green glaze bowl in buff brickwork buff clay built Caliph centimetres centre century H clear lead glaze colonnade column-drums columns composite corner cubits decorated inside design in black drums Dujailah eastern evidence foundations of Mosque Fragment glaze cf green dome gypsum pavement Hajjaj's haram IBN AL-ATHIR Ibn RUSTA Ilkhânid period Irâq Islamic Islamic pottery known Kûfa Kufic Kût later Level Leyden main wall metres mihrab Mosque III mosque of Al-Hajjaj mounds ornament Palace pinkish clay plain buff ware plinths pottery qibla side qibla wall remains riwaq riwâq foundations ruins Sâbus Sâmarrâ sandstone shaft Sherd single handle missing sixth season's Sounding at Point terra-cotta Terra-cotta figurines Tigris traces trench tunnel Umayyad virgin soil wall of Mosque Wâsit western white glaze whitish clay Wüstenfeld Yâqût