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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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Text Appearing Before Image: ofa granite rock, about a hundred feet above a small streamwhich flows past the base of the hill. The situation is a pic-turesque one, and the approach, under ordinary circumstances,is not difficult, but I had to clamber up the hillside throughknee-deep snow which extended almost to the base of the inscrip-tions and formed an artificial terrace under the loAver edge. The position of the rock is such that the tablets face directlyeast. The niches are rectangular in shape, measuring about fivefeet by eight and a half, and sunk about a foot deep in the rock.The inscription of Darius is in the niche to the left and isslightly higher than the Xerxes tablet. Both are about of thesame size and proportions and both show signs of weathering inplaces, for the rain and melting snow have proved destructiveto the stone, despite the fact that the framework of the recessserves somewhat to protect it. The Darius inscription has1 See, for example, Numbers 35. 6, 11-15 ; Deuteronomy 4. 41-43. ^&^ 1

Text Appearing After Image: ThK GaNJ XamAH IXSIRIPTIONS IN ^VlNTER


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