Giuseppe Labisi. “Squinches and Semi-domes between the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods”

This paper investigates the classification and typological evolution of ‟squinche”, an Iranian architectural feature, employed in many buildings, in Mesopotamia and Iran, dated to the late Sasanian and early Islamic periods. G. Labisi’s study of the squinches on the semi-domes or "kāna pūshs" shows that the early examples of squinches were used in the late Sasanian and the early Islamic architecture such as Qusayr, Kušk-e Ardašīr (in Bozpar, near the tomb of Gur-e Dok̠tar) and Sarvestān, how

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