Identifier: cu31924028627036 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: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing After Image: RUI2fS OF THE SANCTUARY 265 sufficient state of preservation to allow me to make out its gen-eral outlines, but it was filled halfway up the sides with dirtand rubbish. The walls were made of clay and bricks coveredover with plaster, and two of the side walls, which had nodoorway or window, were marked by blind arches indicated bycolumns of unburnt brick and capped by burnt ^^W^^bricks set in the manner here shown, to lend a \lnflfjBrdecorative effect. ■■■■ihi There were also niches in the wall, resembling the familiartakchahs seen in modern Persian houses. The other two sides ofthe room, as shown in my photograph, had archways lookingout over the plain, and the view from these, comprising thesilver thread of the Zendah Rud River and a rich succession ofgardens about Isfahan, was a contrast to the ruin and decaywhich reigned within the walls. Besides the chamber which Ihave been describing, there was still another ruined apartment,the stuccoed walls and outlines of which could

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