. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ^*.tJC«K^f^* C^i^ THE lOMB OF DAEIUS. to the funeral vault. Within the latter, in receptacleshollowed out of the rock, Darius and eight of his family-were successively laid. Xerxes caused a tomb in everyway similar to be cut for himself near that of Darius, 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the heliogravure by MarcelDieulafoy. THE TOMBS OP THE ACH^MENIAJST KINGS 261 and in the course of years others were added close by.^Both the tombs and the palace are built in that eclecticstyle which characterises the Achasmenian period of Iranianart.
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ^*.tJC«K^f^* C^i^ THE lOMB OF DAEIUS. to the funeral vault. Within the latter, in receptacleshollowed out of the rock, Darius and eight of his family-were successively laid. Xerxes caused a tomb in everyway similar to be cut for himself near that of Darius, 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the heliogravure by MarcelDieulafoy. THE TOMBS OP THE ACH^MENIAJST KINGS 261 and in the course of years others were added close by.^Both the tombs and the palace are built in that eclecticstyle which characterises the Achasmenian period of Iranianart. The main features are borrowed from the architectureof those nations which were vassals or neighbours of the. THE HILL OP THE ROYAL ACH^MEOTAN TOMBS AT NAKHSH-f-EUSTEM.^ empire—Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece; but these variouselements have been combined and modified in such amanner as to form a rich and harmonious whole. The coreof the walls was of burnt bricks, similar to those employed inthe Euphrates valley, but these were covered with a 1 The tomb of Darius alone bears an inscription. Darius III. was alsoburied there by command of Alexander. ^ Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving of Flandin and Ooste. 262 THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD EASTERN WORLD facing of enamelled tiles, disposed as a skirting or a frieze,on which figured those wonderful processions of archers,and the lions which now adorn the Louvre, while thepilasters at the angles, the columns, pillars, window-frames,
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