Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . hewn, have been clearedby cutting away and removing the blocks immedi-ately surrounding them ; and the four sides are cov-ered with sculptures referring to the fate of the soulafter death. The winged death-goddesses, the Har-pies, carry the soul away in the shape of a new-bornchild, and above the opening of the grave-chamberwe see the sacred cow, the emblem of life-givingnature, a grateful and consoling reminder. (Secill. 23.) Some few of the isolated tombs r
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . hewn, have been clearedby cutting away and removing the blocks immedi-ately surrounding them ; and the four sides are cov-ered with sculptures referring to the fate of the soulafter death. The winged death-goddesses, the Har-pies, carry the soul away in the shape of a new-bornchild, and above the opening of the grave-chamberwe see the sacred cow, the emblem of life-givingnature, a grateful and consoling reminder. (Secill. 23.) Some few of the isolated tombs represent (the model being, like the houses, evi-dently of wood.) The sculptured lid shows fourhandles, in the shape of lion heads. (See ill. 24.)* *It seems scarcely cre<lil)Ic lliat a certain style of Imilding shouldendure ill the same locality through thousands of years; yet that suchis the case in T-ycia, is provcroduccd in the earlier rock-lombs. O. 23 -U—I o u o Ki Pi CJ r. u < ?J O Q<i J<
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