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History of Art in Antiquity. Persia has been studied with more attention than Media, and fortified enceintes in a ruinous state* but with peculiarities of a FiC. i8a— Fortified g&te, Istakhr. Plan. Flandin and Coste, Pent antitHtu, Plate LX. Striking character, have been encountereil in many places.' Their general appearance, however, has nothing to denote great antiquity, Fia iSt^^Fortified gate, Ittakhr. Longltadiiial icctkM. /M/. and points to the Sassanid rather than the Achaemenid period. On the other hand, we have strong evidence that the gateway which

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