Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 50. DOUBLE GRHFIN CAPITAI,. which on iVssyrian sculptures are straiglit. (Com-pare ill. 54 and Story of Assyria, ill. 1--4 and 22.)We find the same alteration in the winged bulls, themajestic warders of the palace gates at Persepolis,the capital of the later Akhcemenian kings. A column was also found at Susa, the most perfectspecimen of the kind, in far better preservation thanany at Persepolis, although exactly similar to the lat-ter in the peculiar and comp
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 50. DOUBLE GRHFIN CAPITAI,. which on iVssyrian sculptures are straiglit. (Com-pare ill. 54 and Story of Assyria, ill. 1--4 and 22.)We find the same alteration in the winged bulls, themajestic warders of the palace gates at Persepolis,the capital of the later Akhcemenian kings. A column was also found at Susa, the most perfectspecimen of the kind, in far better preservation thanany at Persepolis, although exactly similar to the lat-ter in the peculiar and complicated ornamentationof the upper shaft and capital, which seems to have THE LATE DISCOVERIES AT SUSA. 343 been a distinctive and original creation of Persianart. At least nowhere else are seen the which surmount the column antl support theentablature—sometimes horses, sometimes bulls, orgrififins—used in just this 5^. DOUBLE HULL CAPITAL. XII. KAMBYSES, 529-522 ]].C. 1. Kambvsks was the eldest son of Kyros theGreat and his Persian queen, Kassandane, and assuch the undisputed heir to the crown of Persiaproper and of the vast empire created by hisfather. One Greek writer, it is true, calls him theson of Amytis, but it is a fiction which, it is easy tosee, came from a Median source. Had his motherbeen a foreigner, he could not have reigned, still lesshave succeeded so smoothly and quietly, as a matterof course. He was not a novice in statecraft, havinghad several years practice as viceroy at Babylon,where several Egibi tablets have been found, datedfrom that time, Kambyses being entitled King ofBabel and Kyros King of the Countries,—a morecomprehensive title. 2. Kambyses probably was honestly desirous ofgoverning well and justly, and on several occasionscan be shown to have tried to follow in his fathersfootsteps. For he was not devoid of fine qualities;but he lacked the self-control and admirab
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