The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 159
raymarble laid up dry, with-out cement, but so deftlyadjusted that the jointscan with difficulty be de-tected. Three principal ruins(Fig. 35) mark the site ofthe city—namely, ChehilMinar (Iranian for fortycolumns), the palace ofXerxes, and the palace ofDarius. Splendid broad stair-cases, like those… … Fig. 3d.—Persian columns. These stairs, though of easy grade, must have beenmore imposing than convenient, for the same fashion THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS. 137 obtained at the temple of Solomon, and it will beremembered that when the Queen of Sheba saw theascent by which he [Solomon] went up into…
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