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p. 223 65. for instance, G. Jcquicr, Manuel d'Archcolooic
gypticnne (Paris, 1924, 220-74), and especially
figures 167-82. 7 use
66. The significance of this 'South flower’ has oJiln^und^e'K""S‘ Jcs aUc"
&*■“ “ “-•* K”“'‘*■*—*
r-, ay/ a 1 ~ 1CS llm Wldl Mot °f the Ras Sliamra texts.
ldraC' 'C °UiSChe SA"k (BcrUll> I933)' 7S- HcrzfcId- Ir«» «»</ the Ancient Host
259-60, p. 227
P tC Vu’ assigns it, with all the
rest
f'Q a • r * , of P^gadac, to the
08. A piece was found at Tell Tayanat (American >cars 559-550 b.c. Erdmann, op. cit., 151 rightly
Journal of Archaeology, xli, 1937, 16, figure 12) and Points out that the use of a parallel text in Baby-
anothcr at Tell Halaf (R. Naumami, Tell Halaf 11). Ionian in the building inscription suggests that it
69. A capital of a pilaster from Didyma shows WaS ™?clc a£tcJ .tllc coliqucst of Babylon in 539
three single volutes used one above the other dlc ncw stylc is dcPictc<I in
(Andrac, Die lonischc Saule, plate viii(d)). Archaeologischc Mittcilungcn aus Iran, 1 (1928-29),
p. 224 70. Double volutes were commonly used for 7<J. GiscIa M A ^ <Grecks jn Pcrjia.

ttT^dyrt'VoTeroniT-'l'LnYoft- «•
cabinet-maker’s craft should have been squared , ' T us has ll0,t bccl1, ProPcrl>’ appreciated by
enlarged, and introduced into stone architecture, as t,10SC W'’° W“tC> °!1 thc strcuSt “ of datcs °nl>’>
Hcrzfcld contends (op. cit., 243 f.). The Lesbian L° «>™d<* ‘b° Greek usage as derivations front
capitals and the column front Naxos show, in any B“Sla' So A- M°ortgat, Hellas und d,e Knnst dec
case, tliat experiments with the double volutes as (Leipztg 1926); Hcrzfcld, Iran and the
an impost block were being made by architects at EaSt’ 26°' Greeks d!d <akc °Ver
the time another convention, however, namely the render­
ing of thc edge of thc hair by one or more rows of
71. Schmidt, op. cit., 63. small round spirals. This is a thoroughly oriental
72. Hcrzfcld, Archacologische Mittcilungen aus device, adapted by the north Syrians from Assyria
Iran, I, 8 fF. and appearing in Greece in thc last quarter of thc
p. 225 73. It is surrounded by a pcribolos which be- sixth century b.c. Dr Richter wrongly sees in it
longs to a mosque built in the tliirtccnth century ailothcr S1S11 of 1,ldueiicc f Pcrf W c,‘ >l8
with materials taken from thc Achacmcnian build- aild %urcs *9 and -0)- The Gree rci1 ermSs^
ings ah round. It thus enriched a monument which, in the ccntury bad bccn of a ^rent type and both
then as now, was venerated as ‘the tomb of the the Pcrsian and1the archaic Greek adopuon of the
mother of Solomon\ dcvlce dcrlvcs’ dircctly or mdirectly’ from ,S>
81. Collected by Dr Richter, op. cit. Erdmann
74. There is a fine head of limestone of a king in (op. cit. 152) rightly emphasizes that Dr Richter
the Stoclet collection (Survey of Persian Art, plate
overrates the influence of thc Grecks and docs not
io8e, but it is only two and three quarter inches quite realize that thc graffiti indubitably prove that
high. Greeks arrived once more about - or soon after -
p. 226 75. In a useful summary of thc discussion on the the year 500 b.c.
relation of Greek and Achacmcnian art, Erdmann g2. Hcrzfcld, Iran and the Ancient East, plate p.
(‘ Griechischc und Achacmcmdische Plastik , in 1^} They arc reproduced together with thc Greck
Forschungen und Fortscluitte, xxvi, 1950, 150-3) yascs* thcy rcSemble, in American Journal of Archac-
suggests that the Babylonian reliefs of glazed L (i946), 29.
bricks equal Achaememan art in plasticity and may ^ y ,m p Survey „/ Persian Art,
have influenced it. I doubt this, since these reliefs, Schjllidt, „p. cit., plates H4-I7, l44-4«.
like their Assyrian prototypes and their Acliac- P*

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manes, etc.
of course, that thc Assyrian palaces 81,103-13.
76. It is true, 86. Schmidt, op. cit., plates 96-7.
deserted, but the reliefs were visible in the
were
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