!['Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎278] (309/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0311.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎278] (309/582)")
'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [278] (309/582)
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VISIT TO THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS.
Quintus Curtius, however, also says, that Alexander spared the
citadel, and left there a governor with a garrison of 3000
Macedonians.
Diodorus Siculus describes a grand sacrifice which Pencestes,
Satrap of Persepolis, offered to the Gods, among the number of
which he counted Alexander and Philip, and mentions afterwards
the magnificent entertainment which he gave to the whole army
of Eumenes. # The existence of a Satrap here, would therefore
lead to the inference of its continuing to be, even after Alexan
der's wanton destruction of the temple, the seat of a native
governor.
The second book of the Maccabees gives a proof of its being a
considerable place as far down as one hundred and sixty years
after Alexander's time, as it is there said, (chap, ix.) that Antiochus
Epiphanes, King of Syria, formed the design of pillaging the
temple and the city of Persepolis, which must have been supposed,
at least, to have contained sufficient wealth to reward the enter
prise of a monarch already sufficiently rich.f
The existence of the Arabic inscriptions, so long and so care
fully executed, is assumed also as a proof of the city being peopled
even down to that period; as no voyager, it is said, could have
complete, that but for the Araxes, which ran near it, pointing out its site, not a vestige
of it could be found, and that to this time it had never been restored.'— Quint, Curt. lib. v.
c. 6. 7.
* The historian describes the governor as sending almost over all Persia for beasts to be
sacrificed, and abundance of all other provisions necessary for a festival and public solemnity
on the grandest scale.— Biod. Sic. lib. xix. c. 2.
f Antiochus, attempting to rob the Temple of Jupiter, in Elymais, there received a just
overthrow, with the loss of his life, and ruin of his whole army.'— Fragments ofDiod. lib. xxvi.
s. 23 ; 1 Maccabees, c. vi. v. 1—3.
King Antiochus being in want of money, and hearing there were vast treasures of gold
and silver, and other precious jewels, of offerings made in the Temple of Jupiter Belus, in
Elymais, resolved to rifle it. Coming, therefore, into the province of Elymais, and pretending
that the inhabitants of that place had raised a war against him, he robbed the temple, and got
together a great sum of money; but in a short time after, the gods executed vengeance upon
him for his sacrilege.—fV^. lib. xxvi. s. 34.
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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.
The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."
Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.
Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).
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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.
Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).
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- 'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
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- Buckingham, James Silk
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