...him to borrow forms indiscriminately * from all, so that each of the hundred columns* surrounding his throne might bear upon its fluted shaft the lotus,...and the bull, and symbolize the glories which the vigorous arms of the Persian had gathered upon the battle-fields of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Babylonia....

...-him to borrow forms indiscriminately from all, so that each of the hundred columns* surrounding his throne might bear upon its fluted shaft the lotus,...and the bull, and symbolize the glories which the vigorous arms of the Persian had gathered upon the battle-fields of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Babylonia....

...architecture of the Achaemean kings. " It may have contented them," writes Loftus, "to borrow indiscriminately from all [nations], so that each of the hundred columns surrounding their throne might bear upon its * That Persian art felt the influence of Egyptian scarcely admits of doubt. Nebuchadnezzar spoiled...

...all nations, so that each of the hundred columns surrounding their thrones (at Persepolis and Susa) might bear upon its fluted shaft the lotus, the palm...battlefields of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Babylonia." Being completely an expression of the unique conditions and character of the country it could never...

...index of its individuality. "It may have contented them," writes Loftus, "to borrow indiscriminately from all nations, so that each of the hundred columns surrounding their thrones (at Persepolis and Susa) might bear upon its fluted shaft the lotus, the palm and the bull,...

...index of its individuality. "It may have contented them," writes Loftus, "to borrow indiscriminately from all nations, so that each of the hundred columns surrounding their thrones (at Persepolis and Susa) might bear upon its fluted shaft the lotus, the palm and the bull,...