De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910, Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 63
HISTORY OF ART third to nine and four-fifths feet broad. This platform iscomposed of three distinct terraces, at different heights abovethe level of the plain. The southern is twenty-three feet,the northern thirty-five feet, and the central forty-five feethigh. A magnificent staircase leads from… … RUINS OF THE PALACE OF PERSEPOLISCompare Platform ai)d Approaches with Those at Khorsabad being at right angles to the buildings they approach, but allbeing double, apparently to permit of processions passing thethrone, situated in the porches at their summit; without in-,terruption, and without…
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