!['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.' [‎267] (298/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0300.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.' [‎267] (298/582)")
'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.' [267] (298/582)
The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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TOMBS OF THE ANCIENT PERSIAN KINGS.
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niches cut on the outer surface, and from its having blank win
dows, of square and oblong forms, let in on three sides, of a black
stone, while the edifice is of white. The roof is flat; it is still
perfect, and apparently formed of large beams of stone, as in the
temples of Egypt. The door was evidently a folding stone door,
as used in the tombs of the Jewish kings at Jerusalem, and in the
mountains of the Decapolis, judging from the large sills for the
pivots, which are still seen in the upper architrave. The entrances
to the cave tombs in the rocks were closed.
Between the second and third cave is a figure of a Sassanian
monarch on horseback, with a Roman prisoner, supplicating him,
in the act of kneeling ; and the whole attitude of this supplicant
is- full of expression: the figures are all larger than life, are exe
cuted in high relief, and are extremely well done. Behind this is
an inscription of at least one hundred lines in the Sassanian cha
racter, which might be easily copied.
Beneath the third tomb is a bas-relief, representing a combat,
originally well executed, but now partly defaced. This tomb is
also closed ; but all the space of the portico behind the pilasters,
and the whole of the space not occupied by the figures above, is
covered with inscriptions of many hundred lines, in tablets, like
those which I saw at the cliff of Bisitoon. Between the third and
fourth cave is a bas-relief, in high preservation :—a Sassanian mo
narch is holding, with his queen, a ring, from which ribbons float:
behind them is a soldier, with a Roman helmet, holding up one
hand, while the other is placed on his sword. The drapery and
dresses of this group are exceedingly well delineated.
The fourth tomb has no additional ornaments; but its front is
in higher preservation than any other. They were all inaccessible
to us, and could not be got at without ladders or ropes. There
are many inscriptions, and some tablets smoothed away for others
never cut.
This last tomb r as it stands in a separate mass of rock from
the others, and faces to the west, may perhaps be the tomb of
2 M 2
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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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- 1 volume (545 pages)
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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
- Author
- Buckingham, James Silk
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