Persepolitan
- a word derived from Persepolis.
Example Sentences
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Where the Byzantines use the acanthus, the Lombards use the Persepolitan water-leaf; but the connection of the cornices and capitals is exactly the same.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
Those on the Persepolitan monuments represented a father and a son, though in certain cases the father added his own father's name, but without the royal titles.
From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Compare the Persepolitan casts in the British Museum, assigned to 500 b.c., and Fellows, Lycia, p.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
It will be recollected, that besides these three sorts of Persepolitan writing, there are two other distinct classes of arrow-head characters, called Babylonian and Assyrian.
From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by Bartlett, John Russell
I was devoted to her, and I knew her when I was at the Persepolitan Hotel, but devotion when women are concerned, becomes complicity.
From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre
