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126 History of Art in Antiquity. into it a certain degree of freedom. If, speaking here and there generally, the lines that make up the crowning are very similar and their contour identical (Figs. 15 and 56), there are differences in matter of detail between Thebes and Persepolis.' Thus, instead of the tying fillets seen around the torus of the Delta, we find here what is commonly called the reel and bead, in which we scent Grecian rather than Egyptian taste. The grooves carved in the hollow of the gorge are not carried up to the upper band, but divided into three sec- tions ; hence the aspect they present is that of a triple tier of slender arcades. I > ■, Fig. 56. — Persepolis. Palace No. 8, Sec- tion of cornice of lateral doorways. Flandin and Coste, FiC. 55. — Minaret of Shah Roustan, Ispahan. Ptrse ancienne, Plate Flanuin and Coste, Pent modertu, Plate LIV. CLVII. The doorways, thanks to the excellent quality of the stone out of which they were made, are, as a rule, in good preservation (Fig. 57). Their opening, in the shape of a rectangular parallelo- gram, is wreathed round by two listels, slightly salient one upon the other. In the tombs at Naksh-i-Rustem their number is increased to three ; ' but the door-frame of a sepulchral vault found north-east of the Persepolitan platform consists of three platbands, each adorned by a row of thickly set anthemions ' For the Egyptian gorge, see f/ist. of Art, torn. i. Figs. 67, 389-393. ' FLA.NDIN and Coste, Perst andenne, Plates CLXXIII.-CLXXV.