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 316
result of all this foresight andpainstaking, we have before us in the shape of a veryremarkable piece of historical sculpture, surroundedby numerous columns of inscription, making in allover one thousand lines of cuneiform writing. Thelong narrative is repeated three times in the… … 286 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND BERSIA. as the country began to be called from its capitalShushan or Susa,—and possibly of the un-Aryan pop-ulation of tlic entire Zacrros refrion. For this Ian-guage has been shown to belong neither to theAryan nor to the Semitic, but to the Turanian oragglutinative type.…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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