Illustration Query - 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
Illustration Query
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The illustration number was missing; can you help us figure out what it should be? (Should this one be 9.2 and should other illustration numbers be adjusted for the addition?)
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Also, what is the illustration that this refers to? It wasn’t cited, but maybe this is referring to page 314 or 315 of George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, three vols. (New York: 1881), Vol. III. What do you think?
The author also had a note in the Chapter 9 General Queries “Add to Illustrations 9.?” section (the second note on the Chapter 9 General Queries page) about considering adding the following, which seems similar to the quoted text from Chapter 9 here; we would have to number it if it were identified and added:
“9.? [the second note]: Cyrus’s tomb at Pasargadae, from Rawlinson 1881: Vol. III, p. 318.”
(But there’s not much on page 318, so it might be other pages near here, or else the note is not about this part of the body text.)
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We would have to renumber the illustrations because 9.2 is currently supposed to be, per the Illustration list: “9.2 Aerial photo of the citadel of Gur, near Firuzabad, Iran, dating from Achaemean 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,[2] Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship, 1953:_.) [page number(s) unknown]).”
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- ↑ George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, three vols. (New York: 1881), Vol. III, p. 318.
- ↑ H.P. l’Orange, Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship (Oslo: 1953).
