Note 136 — Chapter VI · BAGHDÂD TO MÔṢUL April 12—April 28

I give a plan of the three vaulted halls, but Viollet has made a sketch plan of the ground behind which furnishes indications of the whole scheme of the palace. The Beit el Khalîfah is perhaps the Dâr el ’Ammeh, the first palace built by Mu’taṣim upon the site of the monastery: Herzfeld, Sâmarrâ, p. 63.