Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889)
Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 · London : T. Fisher Unwin ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 268
s.The terraces were four in number, the pillars sixtyfeet apart, and twenty-two feet in circumferenccj ascould be verified from the remains. On the whole,this Paradcisos, as the Greeks called it, disposedsomewhat on the principle of the Ziggurat, was notan innovation, and we have seen in a… … a z .a -a >. S U ^ 1/3 uT o ^ bo 9 a CO isi\2 to 238 MEDIA, BAPYLON, AND PERSIA, type of both Ziggurat and hanging gardens havingbeen carried north in remote antiquity from ChaKleawhere, beyond doubt, it originated, and was closelyconnected with the religious traditions of the HolyMountain and…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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