Dieulafoy, Marcel Auguste, 1844-1920 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 41
nsation they have quarries which yield fine slabs of stone. They accordingly bor-rowed from Persia the principle of the ribbed vault, of the cupola, square or polygonal on plan, and of structures designed to resist the thrust of vaults. Thus, in the Kasr-Kharaneh (p. 15, Figs. I, 25), the imitation… … FIG. 53.—SO-CALLED SWORD OF CHARLE-MAGNE. POMMEL ORNAMENTED WITH THE SASSANIAN feruer AND mahf-u.(The Louvre.) {Phot. Hachette.) 26 THE PERSIAN ARTS UNDER THE SASSANIDS stone into thin slabs. The same device had already been adoptedin the palace of Firuz-Abad (Fig. 18). As to the castle of…
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