The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . tanswered the same purpose in Susa as the lot^ didamong the Jews. The long projection into thefuture of the massacre of the Jews was not Hamanspersonal wish, but was the fate fixed for them bythe Pur, the lot. 243. There is no event described in the Old Testa-ment whose structural surroundings can be so viv-idly and accurately restored from actual excavationsas Shushan the Palace. The discoveries of Dieu-lafoy have contributed most largely to this Memnonium, or palace of Artaxerxes Mnemon(236) was the restored pal
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . tanswered the same purpose in Susa as the lot^ didamong the Jews. The long projection into thefuture of the massacre of the Jews was not Hamanspersonal wish, but was the fate fixed for them bythe Pur, the lot. 243. There is no event described in the Old Testa-ment whose structural surroundings can be so viv-idly and accurately restored from actual excavationsas Shushan the Palace. The discoveries of Dieu-lafoy have contributed most largely to this Memnonium, or palace of Artaxerxes Mnemon(236) was the restored palace of Xerxes. It wascomposed of three groups of distinct apartments,each surrounded by a special enclosure, but comprisedin the same fortress. The Apaddna or throne-hall,resembled, by its appointments and its hypostylearchitecture, a Greek temple. The king occupiedin the tabernacle the place of the divine statue. Thehall at Susa covered more than twenty acres. Theporticos, the stairways, the enclosures, were devel-oped upon an area more than eighteen times ><; -^ W a) <(, tii ^ O w S <1 § I a; ^ ^ a § t^ - ^^ ^ o =- >m. SHUSHAN THE PALACE IN PARIS 259 and divided by a pylon. On this side of the pylon,a giant stairway that leads from the parade-groundup to the level of a vast esplanade; on the other side,glittering with its enameled crown, losing itself inthe green branches of a hanging garden, was theApaddna. ^Quite separated from the Apaddna,grouping themselves about an interior court, werethe special apartments of the sovereign: the audiencehall, the rest chamber, rooms similar to a chancery,and to an armory, for the guards, and for the kingssubsidiaries. Like the Apaddna, it is reached bystairs of gigantic proportions, which connect the for-tified gate of his especial apartments with the private dwelling of the king, recognized by itsarrangement and isolation, and by the formidableturret which protected it, occupied the southeastangle of
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