A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . nesover the doors and windows are sockets for the pivots of the folding-doors and window-shutters. (Jn the northern side are three recessesand two passageways into a ruined room in the rear; on the rightof this remains a doorway, which led into a small room. As beard-less servants or pages are here sculptured with cloths, salve-boxes,censers, and small perfume-baskets, it is safe to conjecture that thiswas a room devoted to the kings toilet; a sliort distance awaythere is represented on the jamb of a great
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . nesover the doors and windows are sockets for the pivots of the folding-doors and window-shutters. (Jn the northern side are three recessesand two passageways into a ruined room in the rear; on the rightof this remains a doorway, which led into a small room. As beard-less servants or pages are here sculptured with cloths, salve-boxes,censers, and small perfume-baskets, it is safe to conjecture that thiswas a room devoted to the kings toilet; a sliort distance awaythere is represented on the jamb of a great doorway the king, at-tended by two servants, going into one of the side-chambers. Thisside-chamber has an entrance into the central hall, as well as oneleading into a second adjoining room, on the doorposts of which theking is sculptured under the guise of Verethraghna, or Hercules,strangling the lion under his arm. It is probable that this squareapartment, measuring about thirty-nine feet, was appropriatml forthe storage of treasure and the royal utensils. The central hall lias PLA. t-^ 4*. ^ «f-*
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