قصر المشتى

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A desert palace, unfinished in its construction, attributed to the caliph al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik (125-126 AH), most of which has collapsed. The most important of the carved decorations of its southern façade, carved in limestone, was taken to Berlin: the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid gave it to the German emperor Wilhelm II, and it has been in the Berlin Museum since 1903. The book describes its plan: a rectangular building flanked by semicircular towers, an entrance leading to a courtyard, then a larger courtyard followed by the royal wing and a throne hall with three niches; researchers consider one of the rooms to have been the palace mosque ¹².