Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . we may judge from the images of the king carvedon the doorways and representing him in combat with conven-tionalized monsters or as attended by slaves who carry the royalumbrella and fly-flap.^ We may even go further and presumethat it was the abode of Xerxes as crown-prince, if we mayjudge from the physiognomy of the king as portrayed here andon the walls of his palace.^ About forty yards north-northwest from this point and 1 On this point compare the re- * For illustrations of Xerxes
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . we may judge from the images of the king carvedon the doorways and representing him in combat with conven-tionalized monsters or as attended by slaves who carry the royalumbrella and fly-flap.^ We may even go further and presumethat it was the abode of Xerxes as crown-prince, if we mayjudge from the physiognomy of the king as portrayed here andon the walls of his palace.^ About forty yards north-northwest from this point and 1 On this point compare the re- * For illustrations of Xerxes at-marks of Curzon, Persia, 2. 172-173; tended by his servants or in combatbut see Justi, Grundr. iran. Philol. with mythical animals, see Stolze and2. 452, and Empire of the Persians, Andreas, 1. pi. 13 seq. p. 197. 5 For photographic illustrations, see 2 Blundell, op. at. p. 539. Stolze and Andreas, 1. pis. 1-4. See for example the photographs « Justi (Empire of the Persians, p. in Stolze and Andreas, Persepolis, 1. 198) says the portrait of Xerxes ispis. 24-25. fairly recognizable; it shows a long,. THE HALL OF A HUNDRED COLUMNS 317 directly behind the mound in the rear of the Palace of Darius,we see a ruined entrance-hall, decorated with the conventionalbas-reliefs of the king seated upon his throne. This smallstructure is known as the Portico of Darius (^), though some-times called the Central Edifice. Adjoining it on the east there stands the last and thelargest of all the palatial buildings, the Hall of a HundredColumns (/), erected by Darius for holding ceremonial func-tions. The main entrance was on the north side through avestibule whose roof was supported by sixteen columns thatled the way into the throne-hall itself. This superb edificecovered an area two hundred and twenty-five feet square, andformed a magnificent structure raised on a hundred columns,ten rows each way, but of these not a single one is now stand-ing. The doorways east and west still represent Dari
Size: 964px × 2594px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherlondonmacmillancol
