Abstract
That Sasanian architecture was one of the important styles, that it attained grandeur and magnificence, and that it developed with ingenuity certain forms of vault and dome construction which have had a wide subsequent influence is amply proven by the ruins of the stone palaces of Sarvistan, Firuzabad, Kasr-i-Shirin, and Kuh-i-Khwaja, as well as by the remains of the vast brick structure of the Taq-i-Kesra. But our materials are too meager and incoherent to enable us to construct a comprehensive picture of Sasanian architecture in its entirety. For in addition to these few monuments we have only the ruins of the lovely palace at Damghan recently excavated by the Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the Pennsylvania Museum, the palaces at Kish excavated by the Oxford-Field Expedition, those at Ctesiphon excavated by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, and finally a few documentary references, mostly confined to rather vague impressions, with some tantalizing remarks about plan...
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