The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 143
f everydescription, especially in Persia. For in the palaceof Xerxes (Ahasuerus) at Susa (Shushan) we aretold that there were white, green, and blue hang-ings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple tosilver rings and pillars of marble ; the beds were of * Birs Nimroud. f Genesis, xi, 3, 120… … FlG. 30.—Elevation of Dirs Nimroud. What is true of Persia is true also of Nineveh andBabylon, where luxury hardly differed in quantity orkind. All Chaldean temples were used as observatories,and here astronomical investigations were nightly car-ried on and traced upon soft-clay tablets,…
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