A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ite of the one built by Ar-dashir. Here we find the ancient Persian doors and window-frameswith subordinated round arches, while domes and half-domes are builtin ovulate form. This form of construction,with domes on pendentives, had been in com-mon use in Asia since the Assyrian of the dwelling-houses of the Persiansare crowned with clay domes, and the ab-sence of the arch in Persepolis goes withother things to prove the Grecian origin ofthe royal buildings at that place. The ovalarch, the prec
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ite of the one built by Ar-dashir. Here we find the ancient Persian doors and window-frameswith subordinated round arches, while domes and half-domes are builtin ovulate form. This form of construction,with domes on pendentives, had been in com-mon use in Asia since the Assyrian of the dwelling-houses of the Persiansare crowned with clay domes, and the ab-sence of the arch in Persepolis goes withother things to prove the Grecian origin ofthe royal buildings at that place. The ovalarch, the precursor of the pointed arch, bothof w^hich are found at Khorsabad, is also tobe seen in Sarbistan (Fig. 67), betweenShiraz and Pasa. The horse-shoe arch occursin the same buildings, as well as in the Tak-Girrah in the Zagros Pass, and later also inArmenian and Mesopotamian churches, dat-ing from a period anterior to Islamism. As early as the Parthianperiod, the Persians practised the Assyrian art of surface decoration,with glazed tiles decorated in geometrical figures and leaf-work, as. Fig. (j6. — Portal of thePalace of Firuzabad. A ED A Silin S EMPIRE. 209 is proved by fragments at Warka; this they transmitted to theArabs, who brought it to Egypt and Spain. The use of majolicacame to Italy by another route, from Pitzunda in Abkhasia andErivan to Pisa, where it was first employed in the thirteenth cen-tury in the church of Saint Cecilia. Likewise the primitive Chal-daic decoration of walls with sunken panels was evolved into anarrangement of pilasters spanned by an arch. This motive ismet with again in the Byzantine church at Ani in Armenia as wellas in Firuzabad. Ardashir, the King of Kings, had the unprecedented good for-tune of subjugating almost all the Parthian countries. Only in afew regions of difficult approach Parthian famihes still maintainedtheir supremacy, as, for instance, the Aspahapet in Tabaristan,whose sway was destined to outhve that of the Sassanians. King
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