. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE PEOPYLiEA OF XEKXES I. AT PEKSEPOLIS. which, taken together, formed a rectangle measuring 300feet by 260 feet on the two sides, the area being approxi-mately that of the courtyard of the Louvre. The central Drawn by Boudier, from the heliogravure of Marcel Dieulafoy. 268 THE LAST DAYS OP THE OLD EASTERN WORLD colonnade, which was the largest of the three, was enclosedby walls on three sides, but was open to the festoons of drapery hung from the woodenentablature, and curtains, suspended from rods between thefirst row
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE PEOPYLiEA OF XEKXES I. AT PEKSEPOLIS. which, taken together, formed a rectangle measuring 300feet by 260 feet on the two sides, the area being approxi-mately that of the courtyard of the Louvre. The central Drawn by Boudier, from the heliogravure of Marcel Dieulafoy. 268 THE LAST DAYS OP THE OLD EASTERN WORLD colonnade, which was the largest of the three, was enclosedby walls on three sides, but was open to the festoons of drapery hung from the woodenentablature, and curtains, suspended from rods between thefirst row of columns, afforded protection from the sun and. BAS-EELIEF ON THE STAIRCASE LEADING TO THE APADANA OF XEBXES I. from the curiosity of the vulgar. At the hour appointed forthe ceremonies, the great king took his seat in solitarygrandeur on the gilded throne of the Achsemenids; atthe extreme end of the colonnade his eunuchs, nobles,and guards ranged themselves in silence on either side,each in the place which etiquette assigned to him. Mean-while the foreign ambassadors who had been honoured 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Marcel Dieulafoy. THE ETIQUETTE OF THE PERSIAN COURT 269 by an invitation to the audience—Greeks from Thebes,Sparta, or Athens; Sakee from the regions of the north ;Indians, Arabs, nomad chiefs from mysterious Ethiopia—ascended in procession the flightsof steps which led from the townto the palace, bearing the presentsdestined for its vojaX reached the terrace, thecurtains of the apadana were sud-denly parted, and in the distance,through a vista of columns, theyperceived a motionless figure, re-spl
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