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 371
s finds is the royal seal of the Akh;enienian kings; not the 340 MEDIA, BABYLON, ANP PER ST A. impression alone, 1)ut tlic seal itself, conical-shaped,of a valuable gray, opal-like stone. The two sphinxeswhich seem to guard the royal medallion, plainlyshow, by their Egyptian character, that this… … 48. WINGED liUI.I, AT PERSEPOLIS.(Compare Assyrian winged bull, Story of Chaldea, ill. 27.) could have been adopted only after the conquest ofEgypt. But the most remarkable feature aboutit is the figure within the winged disk, hoveringabove the royal efifigy. It is an obvious imitationof the…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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