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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 After Image: I, Cyrus, the Kinu, the Aih.emeni:! THE SCULPTUBED MONOLITH OF GYRUS 283 I remounted my horse and, followed by Safar and the guides,turned his bridle in the direction of the lonely mausoleum thatforms the principal object in the plain. To reach the roadthat leads to it, I had to ride nearly a mile west and southwestover fields freshly turned up by plows of the primitive Jamshidtype.i In Persia one has little hesitation about riding overnewly sown ground, for a drop of water from the irrigationtrenches quickly restores each trampled blade. My thoughtswere centred only upon the massive stone structure in thedistance, which looked towerlike enough to merit the namep-drgos applied to it by Strabo.^ I had long been interested in the accounts which the Greekand Latin authors have given of the death of Cyrus, and intheir descriptions of his tomb. I had devoted considerabletime some years before to investigating the mooted questionwhether this Grave of Solomons Mother, or Mosque of theMother

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