Note 84 — Chapter IV · GENESIS OF THE EARLY MOHAMMADAN PALACE

Dr. Herzfeld calls attention to the significant fact that the Babylonian theatre, while it exhibits a good Greek plan, is built of sun-dried brick, doubtless by local workmen, and is technically indistinguishable from local structures of an earlier age. Iranische Felsreliefs, p. 225. To a reconstruction of a later period belongs the stage, with its burnt brick foundations, wooden superstructure, and ornaments of carved stucco, and here too technique and material are of local origin. The theatre is not yet published. A very short account of the excavations is to be found in Mitt. der D. O.-G., No. 21, p. 9, and No. 22, pp. 4 et seq.; a longer description in Koldewey, Das wieder erstehende Babylon, p. 293.