ew at the Louvre in Paris.

The tomb of Daniel has been fully described by Layard--see
_Early Adventures_, vol. II, p. 295. It is of comparatively
recent date, not unlike the shrines of Mussulman saints, and
is surmounted by a high conical dome of irregular brickwork,
somewhat resembling in shape a pine cone. The reader is
referred to the beautiful pictorial illustrations of
Daniel's reputed tomb, of the ruins of Susa, and of Schuster
and its bridges in Mme. Dieulafoy's _La Perse, la Chaldee et
la Susiane_, Paris, 1887.

There is nothing to connect the building on the banks of the
Shaour with the tomb of Daniel save the Mussulman tradition.
There are many legends connected with the reputed sepulchre,
one of which is to the effect that the men of Susa diverted
the river in order to bury Daniel's coffin in its bed. See
Guy Le Strange, p. 240.

E.N. Adler, in his recent work _Jews in many Lands_, Jewish
Historical Society of England, p. 224, in describing
Samarkand, writes as follows: "Tradition has it that
Tamerlane had seen the tomb at Susa in Persia, with a
warning inscribed thereon, that none should open its door;
and so he broke it open from behind, and found it written
that Nebi Daniel was there buried. The impetuous conqueror
had the sarcophagus removed with all reverence, and carried
it with him to his own capital to be its palladium. The
sarcophagus is over twenty yards long as beseems a prophet's
stature. It has been recently covered by a brick chapel with
three cupolas, but photographs of the ancient structure can
be had in Samarkand. It is grandly placed at the edge of a
cliff overhanging the rapid river Seop. The local Jews do
not believe the story, nor do they quite disbelieve it, for
I went with two who prayed there at the grave of the
righteous."]

[Footnote 155: The reader will recollect that reference to
this sect has already been made on page 16. See Guy Le
Strange, p. 220 and p. 354.]

[Footnote 156: Amadia (Imadiyah) is a city in Kurdistan in a
mountainous district, north of Mosul. Ben Virga and R.
Joseph Hacohen, the author of _Emek Habacha_, state that
1,000 Jewish families lived in the city at that time. It is
strange that in all the MSS., including Asher's text, this
city is called Amaria