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 128 History of Art in Antiquity. •f • rosette which forms the main ornament about these doorways came from Ionia ? But the part it plays in Assyrian decoration is too well known to need comment. It meets the eye everywhere; either warm with vivid tints on enamelled bricks, or chiselled in alabaster and ivory, or engraved or impressed upon metal by the goldsmith. It was from thence that the Greeks as well as the Persians borrowed it ; and if their arts betray co- incidences with each other, it is because they have drawn from the same fount. No gate- way is left standing at Susa. Frag- ments of a frame were picked up among the rubbish by M, Dieulafoy, which he thinks be- long to the principal entrance to the Palace of Artaxerxes. " They are round listels, separated by egg-shaped chaplets and channelled baguettes"' (Fig. 59). These remains enabled him to restore the portal to the hypostyle hall which he exhibited in the (^^hamp de Mars two years ago. Thus, the membering of an edifice in Susiana, younger than the great palaces of Persepolis, though ' Dieulafoy, Deuxiimc Rapport ^ p. 22. Fig. 58. — FcrscpoUs. Doorway to royal tomb. DiEfLAFOV, Art aiUiifut, torn. ii. Fig. i8.