. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. liK. ^ turn style had itsorigin in Asia. A\ lare (]uite aware th itconjectures, bearinga semblance of pio-baliiiity, have as-signed the erectionof this stu])en(louspalace to Kgy])tiancaptives, at a com-paratively late j)L-riod, after the con- ijuest of Egypt by tK- H- ^AK^?u ABKi)«iN A,. ciiAiiALihUi,. Cauibyses; but we think they are answered bv the similarity ofarrow-headed characters used therein to those of ancient Babylon, where

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. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. liK. ^ turn style had itsorigin in Asia. A\ lare (]uite aware th itconjectures, bearinga semblance of pio-baliiiity, have as-signed the erectionof this stu])en(louspalace to Kgy])tiancaptives, at a com-paratively late j)L-riod, after the con- ijuest of Egypt by tK- H- ^AK^?u ABKi)«iN A,. ciiAiiALihUi,. Cauibyses; but we think they are answered bv the similarity ofarrow-headed characters used therein to those of ancient Babylon, whereof an exainpk ishere given (/?9. 29. ?) from one of the jiortals of Iersepolis. A few miles to the south ofPersepolls, tl e hill of Nakshi Rusian {ffj. 30.) presents a number of scui|iiured tomb.«.

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