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 Before Image: r knowledgeof the Zoroastrian religion during the Parthian period, regard-ing which our information is in many respects scanty. In anyevent Kangavar offers a good field for archaeological research,and I believe that scientific excavations in the vicinity, as atTak-i Bostan and throughout the valley, would yield importantresults. Continuing the journey toward Hamadan, I stayed overnight, for the second time, at the small walled village of Asad-abad, or Saidabad, four and a half farsakhs (about twentymiles) distant from Kangavar.* This settlement lies at the 1 Yt. 5. 1. 8 Dieulafoy, UArt Antique de la 2 For specimens of the bases and Perse, pt. 5, pp. 7, 8, 207. capitals of the columns, see Ker Porter, * The distance is given by Masson, Travels, 1. pi. 43 c ; and compare also JBAS. 12. 99 (after Webb) as twenty- the drawings of Flandin and Coste, two miles; Curzon, Persia, 1. 57, says Voyage en Perse, Texte, p. 13, and the (approximately) twenty-three miles,allusions to the Doric order.

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