Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 49- IEKblAN HLLAK—liAbE ANU CAllTAI,, 342 MEDIA, , AND is always found above or in front of the kiiiL;, wlicr-cvcr he appears in the wall and rock-sculi)turcs ofthe It is plain that they adopted itas the mectest emblem of their own supreme godAhura-Mazda and we find it lavishly reproducedon all their monuments, be they palaces or only difference lies in the national garb wornby the Eranian god, and the curve of the win
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 49- IEKblAN HLLAK—liAbE ANU CAllTAI,, 342 MEDIA, , AND is always found above or in front of the kiiiL;, wlicr-cvcr he appears in the wall and rock-sculi)turcs ofthe It is plain that they adopted itas the mectest emblem of their own supreme godAhura-Mazda and we find it lavishly reproducedon all their monuments, be they palaces or only difference lies in the national garb wornby the Eranian god, and the curve of the wings,. 50. DOUBLE GRHFIN CAPITAI,. which on iVssyrian sculptures are straiglit. (Com-pare ill. 54 and Story of Assyria, ill. 1--4 and 22.)We find the same alteration in the winged bulls, themajestic warders of the palace gates at Persepolis,the capital of the later Akhcemenian kings. A column was also found at Susa, the most perfectspecimen of the kind, in far better preservation thanany at Persepolis, although exactly similar to the lat-ter in the peculiar and complicated ornamentationof the upper shaft and capital, which seems to have THE LATE DISCOVERIES AT SUSA. 343 been a distinctive and original creation of Persianart. At least nowhere else are seen the which surmount the column antl support theentablature—sometimes horses, sometimes bulls, orgrififins—used in just this way.
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