Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . ThK GaNJ XamAH IXSIRIPTIONS IN ^VlNTER. Thk Wokd God (Baga) in Ancient Persian Cunkifokm Leiteks THE GANJ NAMAH INSCRIPTIONS 171 suffered most. A crack runs through it from top to bottom onthe left, or southern, side and broadens out as it nears the lowerledge till it becomes a fissure almost five inches wide and thusdestroys several letters. Moss was growing in this cleft whenI saw it and water was trickling through the groove, tendingto expand the crack still more. A small crack also
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . ThK GaNJ XamAH IXSIRIPTIONS IN ^VlNTER. Thk Wokd God (Baga) in Ancient Persian Cunkifokm Leiteks THE GANJ NAMAH INSCRIPTIONS 171 suffered most. A crack runs through it from top to bottom onthe left, or southern, side and broadens out as it nears the lowerledge till it becomes a fissure almost five inches wide and thusdestroys several letters. Moss was growing in this cleft whenI saw it and water was trickling through the groove, tendingto expand the crack still more. A small crack also mars theupper part of the third column of this tablet, and there is adefacement in the lower part of the middle column. Thesocket holes noticeable about the framework of both recessesare apparently ancient and were probably intended to hold thesupports for the scaffold while the sculptor was at work. The Darius inscription, like its companion-piece, is arrangedin three columns, written respectively in Old Persian, Susian(Neo-Elamitic), and Babylonian. The columns are clearly sepa-rated from each other by a narrow space that looks like a per-p
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