196 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Part I, representation of a prayer platform, which we have described else- where as a Talar,^ Imt the meaning of which we should hardly know hut for this representation. The other tetrastyle hall is similar to this, but plainer and somewhat smaller. Turning from these to the hexastyle halls, the smallest but most i»erfect (Woodcut No. 89) is that standing on the soutjiern edge of the upper platform, the inscriptions on M'hich certainly prove it to have been built by Xerxes. The platform on Avhich it stands is approached by two flights of stejjs, that 89. Palace of Xerxes. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. on the east being the one represented in the Woodcut No. 84, — there i^' J Ti^ g) © ma. s lEzazcii ® # m @ m € 90. Rcbtored Plan of Great Hall of Xerxes at Persepolis. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 1 " Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Eestored," p. 126.
