. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Fig. 3d.—Persian columns. These stairs, though of easy grade, must have beenmore imposing than convenient, for the same fashion THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS. 137 obtained at the temple of Solomon, and it will beremembered that when the Queen of Sheba saw theascent by which he [Solomon] went up into thehouse of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. Two great human-headed bulls flanked a propv-lasum at the top of the stairs at Chehil Minar, andhere, within the pil-lared precinct of theportico, all public busi-ness was transa
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Fig. 3d.—Persian columns. These stairs, though of easy grade, must have beenmore imposing than convenient, for the same fashion THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS. 137 obtained at the temple of Solomon, and it will beremembered that when the Queen of Sheba saw theascent by which he [Solomon] went up into thehouse of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. Two great human-headed bulls flanked a propv-lasum at the top of the stairs at Chehil Minar, andhere, within the pil-lared precinct of theportico, all public busi-ness was transacted bythe king. Behind Che-hil Minar, and reachedby another staircasecovered with bas-re-liefs, rose the great hallof Xerxes (three hun-dred by three hun-dred and eighty feet)with central throneroom and lateral por-ticoes. Here occurs theprincipal difference be-tween the Assyrianand Persian styles—namely, the use ofstone columns. All. Fig. 37.—Persian capital. are formed with fluted shafts, some with forked capi-tals composed of double-headed bulls or horses, somewith volutes set vertically (Fig. 36), and others withboth (Fig. 37). It has been suggested that the Greek Ionic capi-tals were derived from these volutes, but it seems to 138 ASSYRIAN STYLE AND WESTERN ASIA. be more probable that they came indirectly from thecolonettes used at Nineveh (Fig. 40). With the conquest of Alexander ended the Assyr-ian stvle, though during succeeding centuries it wasnot without a certain influence upon the architectureof Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, not to mentionseveral subdivisions of western Asia.
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