Wāsit: The Sixth Season's Excavations |
Common terms and phrases
Abbasid Al-Hajjāj Al-Manāra AL-MUQADDASI al-Muqtadir albarello archęological 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 Ilkhānid period Irāq Islamic Islamic pottery known Kūfa Kufic Kūt 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 riwāq foundations ruins Sābus Sāmarrā 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 Wāsit western white glaze whitish clay Wüstenfeld Yāqūt