Identifier: persiapastpresen01jack (find matches)
Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937
Subjects: Zoroastrianism
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e was also built by this same ruler.* Yakuts descriptionof the outer city, the citadel, and the city itself — torepeat again his own designations — would be worth quotingin full if there were space, because his remarks make us moresure of our ground when endeavoring to trace among the ruinsthe main features of by-gone Rei. By far the best descriptionof these remains, however, was given by an Englishman, KerPorter, nearly a century ago. His account was also accom- 1 Ibn Haukal, Oriental Geography, cites, is a misreading of the Arabictr, Ouseley, pp. 176-177. In this quo- letters for Bei-bandl. tation, I have made insignificant ^ See the French translation of changes in punctuation and spelling, Yakuts long article on Rei, and so as to conform with the rest of the Mohammadiah in Barbier de Mey- book. nard, Diet. geog. de la Perse, pp. 2 Yakut, p. 277. The name Zohei- 273-280, 516-518. diah given to the citadel in the text of * Yakut, pp. 277, 517, Jafar ar-Razi, which Yakut (p. 517)
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KER PORTERS DESCRIPTION OF THE RUINS 433 panied by a well-sketched plan, which will remain authoritativeuntil careful archaeological surveys and researches point out thechanges that have occurred since his day owing to the lapse oftime, excavations by the natives, and the building of the rail-road to Rei.i Ker Porters description is so excellent and hisbook so little accessible nowadays, that I regard it worth whileto reproduce the main paragraph here, making such changesin punctuation as would be required to-day, and including hisexcellent map of Rei, which may be helpful in locating thegates mentioned by the Arab geographers, and adding explana-tory footnotes of my own.^ The ruins lie about five miles southeast of Teheran, extendingfrom the foot of the curving mountains and running in that direc-tion across the plain in an oblique line southwest. The surface ofthe ground, all over this tract, is marked by hollows, mounds,mouldering towers, tombs, and wells. The fabric of all being c

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