Si-o-se-pol in Isfahan has no named architect in the article. Allahverdi Khan Undiladze, commander-in-chief of the armies and of Georgian origin, supervised construction. The article names no client, but it was built under Shah Abbas the Great of the Safavid dynasty. The infobox and text agree on 1599 to 1602.
The article describes a double-deck vaulted arch bridge with two superimposed rows of 33 arches, and it also served as a dam. The infobox gives the material as stone and brick, but the text says only stone. It is 977 feet (297.76 m) long and 48 feet (14.75 m) wide, with a longest span of 18 feet (5.60 m).
The river was dammed upstream during the droughts of 2000 to 2002 and 2013 to supply Yazd province. The interior was originally painted, and travelers described the paintings as erotic. The article gives no hours.
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