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 372
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… … 49- IEKblAN HLLAK—liAbE ANU CAllTAI,, 342 MEDIA, BAnVT.ON, AND PKRF.IA. is always found above or in front of the kiiiL;, wlicr-cvcr he appears in the wall and rock-sculi)turcs ofthe Akh.xmenians. It is plain that they adopted itas the mectest emblem of their own supreme godAhura-Mazda and we find…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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