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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN


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Text Appearing Before Image: Justi, areagreed with Ker Porter in regarding the building as a fire-shrine, like the modern Parsi sagri that commonly adjoinsa Tower of Silence. Any one who has visited Malabar Hillat Bombay, or crossed the harbor to inspect the dakhmah atOoran, after studying the history of Persias sacred fire inconnection with the representations on the coins, will be in-clined to agree with this Zoroastrian explanation. Withoutagain mentioning the Pasargadae building, it is sufficient tocompare the kindred structures near Naubandajan* and atFiruzabad, and the representation of fire-shrines on coins ofthe Parthian dynasty, to become convinced of the sacred 1 For a fuller description of all s Curzon, Persia, 2. 144-147.these sculptures, together with ahun- ^ Near Fasa below Tahliyan indant material in the way of bibliog- western Farsistan. For a photo-raphy, consult Curzon, Persia, 2. gi-aph of the fire-temple at Nau-117-126. bandajan, see Stolze and Andreas, 2 See p. 280, above. Persepolis, 2. 147.

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