RESOURCES104, and "Sasanian Pottery from Tell Mahuz (North Mesopotamia),"
Mesopotamia 5-6 (1970-71): 427-82. The latter contains a review
and bibliography of the literature on pottery. The most recent attempt
to understand "Islamic" pottery is M. Rosen-Ayalon's La poterie is-
lamique (Paris, 1974).
Glass is as important a source as pottery but has received relatively
little attention. Sasanian glass has been published by D. Harden in
"Excavations at Kish and Barguthiat 1933," pp. 131-36, and in
R. Girshman's "Appendice sur les fouilles de Medain," in H. de Ge-
nouillac, Fouilles de Telloh (Paris, 1936), pp. 139-50 (from Medain
Ruqba near Warka). More recently M. Negro Ponzi has published
"Sasanian Glassware from Tell Mahuz (North Mesopotamia)," Mes-
opotamia 3-4 (1968-69): 293-384; "Islamic Glassware from Seleu-
cia," Mesopotamia 5-6 (1970-71): 67-104; and "Jewellery and Small
Objects from Tell Mahuz (North Mesopotamia)," Mesopotamia 5-6
(1970--71): 391-425. The appearance of ubiquitous, small, long-necked
bottles associated with the early Islamic period and the existence of
industrial-sized glassworks noted by Girshman at Medain Ruqba and
by Negro Ponzi at Seleucia are important for economic history.
The Iraqi landscape is still dotted with the remains of structures
from the Sasanian and early Islamic periods. The earliest substantial
studies of monumental buildings are C. Preusser's Nordmesopota-
mische Baudenkmaler altchristlicher und islamischer Zeit (Leipzig,
1911), and F. Sarre and E. Herzfeld's Archaologische Reise im Eu-
phrat-und-Tigris-Gebiet, vols. I, III (Berlin, 1911), vols. 11, IV (Berlin,
1920). More recently, pre-Islamic Iranian architecture has been sur-
veyed by G. Gullini in Architettura iranica deg/i Achemenidi ai Sasanidi
(Turin, 1964). D. Oates's "Qasr Serij: A Sixth-Century Basilica in
Northern Iraq," Iraq 24 (1962): 78-89, is an important study of a
particular monument and is included in his Studies in the Ancient
History of Northern Iraq (London, 1968).
For examples of fifth-century Sasanian palaces in lower-central Iraq,
see L. Watelin, "The Siisiinian Buildings near Kish," in Pope's Survey,
11: 584-92. The White Palace of the Sasanians at Mada'in was de-
stroyed to build an 'Abbiisi palace in the ninth century, but remains
of the palaces built by Khusraw 11 at Dastagerd and Qasr-i Shirin
survive, as does an impressive part of the Iwan Kisra at Mada'in. The
mound called the Zindan which is surrounded by remains of half-
round towers at Dastagerd is discussed in Sarre and Herzfeld, 11: 76-
- For the palace at Qasr-i Shirin, see O. Reuther, "Siisanian Archi-