Verify Citation - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth

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Root[1] (1979: p. 307) stated: “In the placement of the motif on doorjambs, a principle is consistently followed whereby anyone entering a building or entering a private chamber from the main hall is confronted by the hero figure”

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  1. Margaret Cool Root, The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire. Acta Iranica, 3rd series, Vol. 19 (Leiden: 1979), p. 307.