Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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other columns of this hall,as well as one belonging to the portico in the rear, are still ex-tant. The lowest parts of the gateway remain, showing on oneside the feet of a man, and the talons of a bird walking behind him;on the other, six naked human feet, evidently belonging originallyto a relievo representation of Cyrus and two servants. A little to the eastward of these ruins stands the pillar with the relief of awinged genius (Fig. 31), an imitation of Assyrian sculpture; thehelmet which the figure wears recalls Nebuchadnezzars (see p. 182,Vol. I.); the crown over the rams horns is the same as Ataf,the crown of RELIEF OF CYRFS AT PAKARGADAE. 163 Khnnm (p. 50, Vol. L), worn also by Maluli at Philae, and occasionallyby Osiris and the youthful Horus. Their form and significance wereknown to the sculptor through Phoenicia. It may seem strange thatCyrus should have had his own form, Fravashi, or immortal part, thusrepresented ; but the older drawings and rejiroductions of the monolith
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Fig. 31. — Relief of Cyrus at Pasagardae. (After Ker Porter.) give an inscription identical with that mentioned on p. Kil, so that,despite the loss of the inscription to-day, there is no real (piestion as to the identity, nor as to the fact that Cyrus had the pillar erected. Farther to the eastward are found the ruins of a square towercalled Zindan, the j)rison, with walls nearly seven feet in thick-ness. The cornice, only one block of which is in position, is 164 THE ACHAEMENIDAE. decorated with dentils as in the LycioGrecian rock-tombs. At aconsiderable elevation is an aperture about two feet in width, reachedby a flight of steps. We shall find a similar edifice near Persepolis.Farther in the direction of Meshed-i-Murghab, there lies on the sideof a hill, fifty or sixty feet high, an immense marble terrace, calledTakht-i Mader-i Suleiman, the throne of the Mother of Solomon.It is over two hundred and sixty feet in width, laid with rough hewnblocks set together without mortar. This

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