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 499
ntury b.c, after the Persian that it occurred at the Syrian Ecba- War, as we then find the word used tana; Ctesias (Fragments, 43-44, ed. by ^/schylus, Fersians, 65, apparently Gilmore, pp. 144-145) says that the with a punning allusion to destroy- event occurred at JBabylon, and adds ing {wipaii)… … FROM PASARGAD^ TO NAKSH-I RUST AM 295 trace back for centuries, if not to Achsemenian times, mayhave designated the city in the plain north and west of theplatform, that is, the abode of the people in distinction fromthe residence of the kings on the grand terrace.^ Be that asit may, the monuments…
Zoroastrianism
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