Missing Illustration Location - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth

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Query: 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth

Missing Illustration Location

Quoted text:

9.2 Aerial photo of the citadel of Gur, near Firuzabad, Iran, dating from Achaemenid times: a cosmic city and fortified residence of the Sasanian dynasty, with concentric circular ramparts and four gates in the cardinal directions at the ends of a cross pattern of avenues. (H.P. l’Orange,[1] Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship, 1953:_.)

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  1. H.P. l’Orange, Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship (Oslo: 1953).