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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: The Library of Congress
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e interiorof the vault has been several times examined and described bytravellers.^ It consists of a passagelike chamber into which 1 These are the well-known inscrip- long for the publication of Dr. F.tions Naksh-i Rustam a and b (Weiss- Sarres admirable pictures, referredbach, Die altpers. Keilinschr. pp. to by Andreas, in Verhandl. des 13.34-36; Spiegel, Die altpers. Keilin- Internat. Orientalisten-Kongresses, p.schr. pp. 52-57). The lower one (b) 96, Leiden, 1904. of the two inscriptions is now almost * See Andreas, op. cit. pp. 96-97, illegible. and cf. Justi, Grundr. iran. Philol. 2. 2 See Weissbach, op. cit. p. 36; 454-455. MM. Babin and Houssay,Spiegel, op. cit. p. 58, and compare collaborators of M. Dieulafoy, in 1885,p. 181, above. actually discovered names carved un- 3 Photographs may be seen in the der seven of the figures; cf. Perrotwell-known works of Stolze and of and Chipiez, Histoire de VArt, 5. 622.Dieulafoy, and we may look before ^ For a plan of the interior of the
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THE SEPULCHRE OF DARIUS 299 the low door opens, and opposite the entrance is a recess whosefloor is higher than tlie level of the passageway. Into thestone flooring of this are hewn three deep troughs to serve assarcophagi, probably for the king and whichever two personshe regarded as nearest to him, while in the extension of thepassage to the left six more such loculi are chiselled. All thereceptacles are entirely empty, and the sole tenants of thislofty catacomb are bats and birds. Two interesting stories in connection with this sepulchre aretold by Ctesias, who must have had them at first hand duringhis residence in Persia as Greek physician to Artaxerxes. Inhis brief notice regarding the tomb of Darius he says (and Itranslate fairly literally) : Darius ordered a tomb to be madefor himself in the Double Mountain, and the work was broughtto completion ; but when he wished to inspect it, he was dis-suaded from so doing by the Chaldseans (the Magian sooth-sayers) and by his parents. H

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