BABYLON AND PERSIA

408 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA.sadly mutilated condition, and bear witness to thesplendor of the building, which seems to have beenunenclosed by walls.The airiness of such an opencolonnade would be particularly suited for summeifestivals and receptions, and it may be that it wasthe need of a cooler audience-hall which caused thisone to be built.Ruins of palaces belonging to laterAkhaemenian kings,and of the same architecturaltype, are scattered somewhat irregularly on differentpoints of the platform, but none are either so exten¬sive or interesting asthose we have attempted todescribe.12. It is remarkable that nothing is left standingof the -masonry of the Persepolitan palaces but thedoorways and windows, with their posts and lintels,all of huge marble blocks, with no vestige of walls.These ruins thus present the exact counterpart ofthose of Assyrian palaces, where nothing is left butthe massive walls.Mr. Dieulafoy, guided by his ob¬servations and actual discoveries at Susa, as well asby examination of the rubbish at Persepolis, suggestsa more than plausible reconstruction of the missingmasonry :" I think," he says, " that the Akhaemenian palaces, with the ex¬ception of the columns, doors, windows, and stairs, were built inbrick cased with tiles ; that these tiles, colored in two tones, lightgray and a grayish ro.se-eolor,* were disposed in mosaic patterns ;that the high cornice above the dentieules of the entablature was or¬namented with bas-reliefs in blue tiles representing bulls f ;thatinto the composition of the outer casing of the walls there entered acertain amount of blue tile. . . .\* Something like what we call " crushed-strawberry."f Just as possibly lions or dogs. ,:|: Revue Archi'ologiijue, Juillet, 18S5.