Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 46. ) STAIR TARAPET CASED WITH ENAMELLED BRICK-WORK, AT SUSA. (Palace of ) Compare liattlemenls at r)iir-Sharriikin, ill. 53 in Storj of Assyria. steps SO broad and low, that they might easily bemounted on horseback. The combinations of colorsin the numerous fragments which it was Mr. Dieula-foys good fortune to collect, seem to have been,though striking, singularly harmonious. He givesthe following, as most frequently occurring : THE
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . 46. ) STAIR TARAPET CASED WITH ENAMELLED BRICK-WORK, AT SUSA. (Palace of ) Compare liattlemenls at r)iir-Sharriikin, ill. 53 in Storj of Assyria. steps SO broad and low, that they might easily bemounted on horseback. The combinations of colorsin the numerous fragments which it was Mr. Dieula-foys good fortune to collect, seem to have been,though striking, singularly harmonious. He givesthe following, as most frequently occurring : THE LATF. ; AT SUSA. 339 On Hi^ht blue ground, prevailing color—white,with touclies of green and pale yellow. On dark green ground, prevailing color—goldenyellow, with touches of blue and white. On black ground, prevailing color—golden yellow,with touches of pale green and 47. ROYAI, SEAL OF TIIIC KINGS.(Found at Susa, by Mr. 1 )icuIafoy.) The gateways were cased in a white-and-rosc-col-orcd mosaic, above which stretched the grand lionprocession. Not the least interesting of Mr. Dieulafo}s finds is the royal seal of the Akh;enienian kings; not the 340 MEDIA, BABYLON, ANP PER ST A. impression alone, 1)ut tlic seal itself, conical-shaped,of a valuable gray, opal-like stone. The two sphinxeswhich seem to guard the royal medallion, plainlyshow, by their Egyptian character, that this seal
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