Ancient History from the Monuments: Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest

Achaemenian Alexander ancient Antiochus Ardashír Armenia arms army Arsacidae Arsakes Artabanus Artaxerxes Asia Minor Asiatic Assyria Astyages attack Babylon battle Behistán Cambyses cavalry chief Christian cloth boards Crassus Crown 8vo Ctesiphon Cuneiform Cyrus Daniel Darius the Mede death doubt early Ecbatana Egypt emperor empire Euphrates feet figure Flandin force Galerius Gomátes Greece Greek hand Heraclius Herodotus horse Hystaspes illustrations on toned inscriptions Jews Julian Khosrú king kingdom Magian Mardonius Median Mesopotamia Mithradates Mithradates II monarch monuments mountain Nakhsh-i-Rustám native Nebuchadnezzar Nisibis notice Nushírwán Ochus Ormazd palace Parthian perhaps Persepolis Phraates Phraates III platform probably Professor Rawlinson province race reign remarkable revolt Roman Rome Royal 16mo Sassanian satraps sculpture Seleucidae Shahpúr Sir H. C. Rawlinson Sir R. K. Porter story success Surena Susa Syria three full-page illustrations throne tion Tiridates tomb toned paper Trajan tribes troops Varahrán victory Vologases Western whole Xerxes Zoroaster Zoroastrian