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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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southward, to the first group of the ruins that are scattered over the plain.2 They form the remains of a solid square building which must have been more than forty feet high, but only one of its shattered walls is standing. The natives conveniently call it ' Solomon's Prison ' (Zindān-i Suleimān} ; Dieulafoy 1 Compare the accounts of the battle given by Nicolaus Damascenus and Polya3nus, cited by Gilmore, Frag- ments of Ktesias, pp. 115- 2 For an outline map showing the position of the ruins, see Flandin and Coste, Voyage en Perse, Ancienne, 4. pi. 194 (reproduced in Parrot and Chipiez, Histoire de VArt, 5. 596). Text Appearing After Image: A FIRE-TEMPLE OR A TOMB? SCULPTURE OF CYRUS THE APPROACH TO THE RUINS 281 believes that it was the Tomb of Cambyses, the father of Cyrus ; Curzon agrees that it was a sepulchre, even if he does not go so far as to assign it definitely to the father of Cyrus. All scholars unite on one point, in comparing it with a similar edifice near the tombs of the kings at Naksh-i Rustam, and I believe that most of them are correct in supporting the view that the edifice was an Achæmenian shrine of fire, as I shall maintain in the next chapter.1 But scarcely a stone of the only wall that survives is in its exact position to tell the story of the past. The present dilapidation of the building, the hard, cold whiteness of the stone, and the contrast which it showed to the soft green of April that freshly decked the plain, as it does ever anew, made a vivid impression upon me. everal hundred yards farther southward is a solitary shaft, nearly twenty feet high and broken at the top. It is com- posed of three blocks, as shown by my photograph, and looks as if it might have formed part of a doorway. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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