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Chap. II.
TOMBS.
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Another, almost identical in form, is fonnd at Passargadse. Tlie
celebrated Kaabah at Mecca, to which all the Moslem world now bow
in praycr, is probably a third; and we possess an Assyrian picture of
a temple very much resembling this. It is found on the end of a
block of marble, called Lord Aberdeen’s Black Stone, which is covered
by the annals of a king who reigned at Kineveh in the 7th century b.c.
Tombs.
Little requires to be said of the tombs of the Persians : that of
Darius is represented in plan and elevation in woodcut Ko. 136, and,
as before remarked, on the rock is a copy of the fagade of his palace.
Internally, three small cells contained the remains of the king, with
those ofthepersons, probably his favourite wife or wives, for whom he
had destined that honour. Close by this, at Xaksh-i-Kustam, are four
others, and in the rock behind Persepolis three more tombs of the
Achaemenian kings, identical witli these in all essential respects, but
still with such a difference in workmanship and detail as would enable
a careful arcliitectural student easily to detect a sequence, and so affix
to each, approximately at least, the name of the king to whom it
belongs. Unfortunately, that of Darius only is inscribed; but his
position in tlre dynasty is so well known, that, starting from that point,
it would be easy to complete the series with the others.
The one exception to this rule is the structural tomb at Passargadas,
which, from the description of the Greeks, we know certainly to be
that of Cyrus. It consists of a small temple-like chamber, situated on
tlie top of a small pyramid of stone steps, and surrounded by a peri-
style or cloister of columns at some distance from the building itself.
143. Tomb of Cyrus.
Keferring to the woodcuts Nos. 125 and 126, representing the
temple at Borsippa, and bearing in mind how exactly thisj represents
TOMBS.
199
Another, almost identical in form, is fonnd at Passargadse. Tlie
celebrated Kaabah at Mecca, to which all the Moslem world now bow
in praycr, is probably a third; and we possess an Assyrian picture of
a temple very much resembling this. It is found on the end of a
block of marble, called Lord Aberdeen’s Black Stone, which is covered
by the annals of a king who reigned at Kineveh in the 7th century b.c.
Tombs.
Little requires to be said of the tombs of the Persians : that of
Darius is represented in plan and elevation in woodcut Ko. 136, and,
as before remarked, on the rock is a copy of the fagade of his palace.
Internally, three small cells contained the remains of the king, with
those ofthepersons, probably his favourite wife or wives, for whom he
had destined that honour. Close by this, at Xaksh-i-Kustam, are four
others, and in the rock behind Persepolis three more tombs of the
Achaemenian kings, identical witli these in all essential respects, but
still with such a difference in workmanship and detail as would enable
a careful arcliitectural student easily to detect a sequence, and so affix
to each, approximately at least, the name of the king to whom it
belongs. Unfortunately, that of Darius only is inscribed; but his
position in tlre dynasty is so well known, that, starting from that point,
it would be easy to complete the series with the others.
The one exception to this rule is the structural tomb at Passargadas,
which, from the description of the Greeks, we know certainly to be
that of Cyrus. It consists of a small temple-like chamber, situated on
tlie top of a small pyramid of stone steps, and surrounded by a peri-
style or cloister of columns at some distance from the building itself.
143. Tomb of Cyrus.
Keferring to the woodcuts Nos. 125 and 126, representing the
temple at Borsippa, and bearing in mind how exactly thisj represents