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 373
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… … 50. DOUBLE GRHFIN CAPITAI,. which on iVssyrian sculptures are straiglit. (Com-pare ill. 54 and Story of Assyria, ill. 1--4 and 22.)We find the same alteration in the winged bulls, themajestic warders of the palace gates at Persepolis,the capital of the later Akhcemenian kings. A column was also…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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