Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 63. CARVED OF WINDOWS AND DOORS.(Persepolis.) feature of Akhaemenian architectural ornamentationfound also in the frieze of the palace at Firuz-abad(see ill. 52), and on the rock-sculptured facade of theroyal tombs (see ill. 56). 8. In the southern terrace-wall, Dareios placedfour large marble slabs, with the usual trilingual in-scription, giving titles, a list of subject nations, andthe customary invocation : May Ahura-Mazda pro-tect this land of Per
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 63. CARVED OF WINDOWS AND DOORS.(Persepolis.) feature of Akhaemenian architectural ornamentationfound also in the frieze of the palace at Firuz-abad(see ill. 52), and on the rock-sculptured facade of theroyal tombs (see ill. 56). 8. In the southern terrace-wall, Dareios placedfour large marble slabs, with the usual trilingual in-scription, giving titles, a list of subject nations, andthe customary invocation : May Ahura-Mazda pro-tect this land of Persia from invasion, dearth, and. o a; < d <_ o r: o< wo -1; < fu - 400 jMKDlA, , AAD PERSIA. lie!(/. i., evil), the exact ec^uivalent of the Chaldeanand Assyrian foundation cyHnders. The Sc\thic in-St ription completes the Persian one b\ this state-ment: Says Darayavush the kiny;: These greatpalaces have been built on this spot, where therewere no palaces before. K central hall, flanked bytwo sets of apartments, of four rooms each, with afront entrance composed of a door and four windowsopening on a porch supported by four columns, andforming at the same time the landing between thetwo flights of stairs,—such is the simple and harmo-nious arrangement which the ruins easily discloseeven in their present mutilated condition. -The dis-tribution of the doors and windows is one of perfectsymmetry, each entrance being in the middle of itswall, greatly differing from the Assyrian halls, wheredoorways were opened anywhere, near corners asoften as not, apparently at random. The size andshape of the apa
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