Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . appurtenances for regulating the hangingsmust have been somehow attached to the roof-rafters, which, like the ceiling, were almost certainlygilt; indeed, it is very likely that the inner surface ofthe walls may have been cased in gold plating also,after the manner of the old palaces at Agbatana; anumber of short metal tacks have been found, whichcould scarcely have served any purpose but that offastening such platings. 10. Pillared halls and porticos being an
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . appurtenances for regulating the hangingsmust have been somehow attached to the roof-rafters, which, like the ceiling, were almost certainlygilt; indeed, it is very likely that the inner surface ofthe walls may have been cased in gold plating also,after the manner of the old palaces at Agbatana; anumber of short metal tacks have been found, whichcould scarcely have served any purpose but that offastening such platings. 10. Pillared halls and porticos being an essen-tially Aryan form of architecture, there is no doubtthat when Dareios built his residence at Susa headded to it a reception hall similar to that at Per-sepolis, and, from what the latter teaches us, we canhave no difficulty in picturing to ourselves the royalbanquet described in the Book of Esther, as givenat that capital,—perhaps on the kings birthday, orat New-Year, the two great occasions of feastingand merry-making at the Persian court,—by Xerxes,the son of Dareios, whom the Hebrews have namedAhasuerus; jS^r™ S5\. ..yLof, 67. DOCK OF UF DAUElUS, IKRSEPOLIS. 405 406 MEDIA, , AND PKKSIA. Now it camo to jiass , . lliat in tliosc days, %\lieii the l<ingAliasucrus sat on tlic tlironc of liis kingdom, whicii was in Shushantlie palace, ... lie made a feast unto all his princes and servants ;the power uf Iersia and Media, the nobles and princes of the prov-inces, being before him. When he showed the riches of his gloriouskingdom, and the honor of his excellent majesty many days. . .The king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shu-shan the palace ... in the court of the garden of tlie kingspalace; where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened withcords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble ;the beds \i. c, the couches or seats] were of gold and silver upon apavement of red, and blue, and white, and
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