52 History of Art in Antiquity. matter where we find it, scarcely exhibits any change, whilst its plan is known from the marks left on the floor, the walls, the columns, and pillars of the Persepolitan platforms. Some of these sup- ports, though sadly mutilated, are still stand- ing, and thus fur- nish certain data forthe elevation. The elements left for compari- son between tombs and pa- laces are identi- cal, and we have no reason to sup- pose that there was less corre- spondence be- tween the parts that no longer challenge com- parison, in one of the twin types we propose to restore in the built house, that they have been wrenched away, as a page out of a book. The arc h IE ologist. Fig. 9. — Part of elevation and transverse section of a royal tomb at fVipn has the Naksh-i Ruslem. Flandin and Costk, i'eru tuicuntu, Plate cLXXVii. right to demand of the pseudo-architecture of the necropoles, that it shall tell him what was the arrangement of the entablatures of palaces
