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Title: Nineveh and Persepolis: an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885
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Publisher: London : A. Hall, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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large horns from the crown of his head ;they support a row of three balls, or circles, within which we seesmaller ones described. Three vessels, not unlike our Europeandecanters, and regularly fluted, rest upon these balls, beingcrested again by three smaller circles. On each side of the whole,like supporters to a coat of arms, stand two small creatures,resembling mummies of the Ibis, but having a bent terminationto their swathed form. Over all is the inscription. Tlie figure,from head to foot, measures seven feet; the width of the stonewhere he stands is five feet; two feet from that line reach thepresent level of the ground. Such is the figure which, on thefaith of the inscriptions, we have ventured to call the portrait ofCyrus himself. Sir E. K. Porter, who does not know what tomake of it, admits that it difiers materially from the wingedfigures at Naksh-i-raistam and Persepolis, which have been sup-posed by the learned to mean the good genii of the personagesover whom they hover.
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statu© 01 Cyrus (U-ijAbaub). CHAP. IX.) STATUE OF CYRUS. 823 The name of Pasargada) occurs only in Ptolemy and Solinus ;all other writers, with the exception of Q. Curtius,—who in oneplace (x. 22,) has Pcrsagaihun, i.e. Persar/ailrtriim whs, and inanother, Persagada?,—uniformly call it Pasargadae, or Par-sargadic. The modern spelling of it, Pasargada, adopted in themaps, has arisen from the supposition that its site was on thepresent Fasa, near the river of that name. Arrian evidently dis-tinguishes Pasargada, where Cyrus was Imried, from Persepolis,his capital, as he invariably calls the latter Persae. Nor can welook for it at a distance so great from Persepolis as the ruins ofFasa. The Greeks became first acquainted with Persepolis andPasargadic, in consequence of Alexanders expedition. According to the unanimous account of all the writers, the)\Iacedonian conqueror in his progress towards the East, arrivedfirst at Persepolis, and afterwards at Pasargada, so that thepossession

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