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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 After Image: THE GRAND STAIRCASE AND THE PORTAL OF XERXES 313 men, ten abreast, could ride up it.^ As we surmount the top-most step and cast the eye over the surface of the platform, weare struck by a succession of stately portals, broken columns,capitals, pedestals, stone steps, sculptured friezes, and doorways,spread about in confusion or gathered into disordered groups.So often have these ruins been described, and so fully havethey been illustrated that I can do little here except point outthe salient features and possibly add a suggestion or tworegarding the historic significance of these relics of the past.^ Directly opposite the Grand Staircase is the Porch ofXerxes (-B). This imposing propylseum is guarded at each en-trance, back and front, by colossal winged bulls of stone, afterthe Assyrian manner. Two of these colossi face westward outover the plain; the other two (a photograph of which I havegiven in the fourth chapter) look eastward toward the hillsbehind the platform. Near the top of
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