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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 369

An illustration from 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, leaf 369
ittle I.rcanicd that they had beenanticipated by the Persian monarchs ! The Lion-frieze and the Archer-frieze are not the only specimens of Tersian enamelled brick Z 53^ i\ii:dta, p.ijiyLO.Y, and per^ta. decoration brouglit to light at Susa. Hardly lesshandsome in a different way is the casing of… … 46. KArri.EMENTKl) STAIR TARAPET CASED WITH ENAMELLED BRICK-WORK, AT SUSA. (Palace of Artaxer.ves.) Compare liattlemenls at r)iir-Sharriikin, ill. 53 in Storj of Assyria. steps SO broad and low, that they might easily bemounted on horseback. The combinations of colorsin the numerous fragments which…

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