The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 158
ers; while Tyrian webswhich caughl the sunset rays were bartered forLydian lutes and Babylonian protection. SUSA, PASSARGADAZ, AND PERSEPOLIS. 135 But wealth wrought weakness and luxury lan-guor, and soon the profligate nobles pulled the Per-sian yoke about their necks. Babylon fell! and artpassed… … Fig. 35.—The Ruins of Persepolis. tant difference between Persian palaces and those ofBabylon and Nineveh being the use of stone columnsand a somewhat greater lightness and elegance oftreatment in the masonry. At Passargadae, the capital of Cyrus and Cam-byses, and at Susa, where stood the winter…
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