Although machicolations performed the same purpose as the wooden galleries, they were probably an Eastern invention rather than an evolution of the wooden form.
Ahuskat machicoulitan daqaran aolahan dǎɣ əšəxil dǎɣ dagan ən šaxeran , aqalan aoxadan atiwagan ihan alqiblat mex sund tiwat nəmik ən šaxeran.