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 390 SASSANIAN ARCHITECTURE. Pakt I. bundles of grapes. In another panel one of the lions is represented with wings, evidently the last lineal descendant of those found at Nineveh and Persepolis, and in all are curious hexagonal rosettes, carved with a richness far exceeding anything found in Gothic architecture, but which are found repeated with very little variation in the Jaina tem))les of Western India. The wing walls of the facade are almost more beautiful than the