Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 288
built partly upon itswestern and northwestern slope, we can understand how itmight be possible for the town itself to be without walls, asPolybius asserts, and for the fortified ramparts and battlementsto be confined, in his own words, to the artificially formed cita-del fortified to an astounding… … THE MUSALLAH HILL 155 palace stood.^ The ascent of the Musallah, I may observe, issteep enough for the Persian horses to start up it at a sharpgallop, as they always do when approaching a marked incline.The height, in my judgment, would answer far better thanTakht-i Suleiman to Herodotus…
Zoroastrianism
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