Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . S AT MYRA. Face page 190. LYDIA AND ASIA MINOR. 191 ends of the beams that run through the building ;the copy is perfect in every detail ; thus where aclosed door is represented, not only arc the panelsindicated, but frequently the nails also that studdedthe original; even the knocker. (See ill. 19.) Onedoor, or, if large, part of one, is left open, to serve as. 19. LYCIAN KOCK-rOMlJ AT TELMESSUS. - entrance into the grave-chamber behind, which, fromthe heigh
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . S AT MYRA. Face page 190. LYDIA AND ASIA MINOR. 191 ends of the beams that run through the building ;the copy is perfect in every detail ; thus where aclosed door is represented, not only arc the panelsindicated, but frequently the nails also that studdedthe original; even the knocker. (See ill. 19.) Onedoor, or, if large, part of one, is left open, to serve as. 19. LYCIAN KOCK-rOMlJ AT TELMESSUS. - entrance into the grave-chamber behind, which, fromthe height at which these excavations arc hewn in the(juitc, or ncarh, perpendicular rocks, can have beenreached only by means of ladders, except where stepshave been cut for the puri)ose. There is no dcnd^tbut that the entrance was closed with a well-fittingslab or block, but the rapacity of generations of 192 , ; and ffrsia. plunderers and conquerors was sure to be attractedb} these retreats of the dead, which might well besupposed to contain valuables of various kinds, andin no case have the modern explorers found the rock- J v/ i^^^:/.
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