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The Attic base was generally used, but an example has been found of an adaptation of the graceful Persepolitan base to the Corinthian column.

From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

Now the antiquity of the Vedas, as inferred from the archaic character of their language, has been shaken by the discovery of the structure of the Persepolitan dialect of the arrow-headed inscriptions.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

As we have seen, Niebuhr had perceived that the Persepolitan inscriptions were in three different systems of writing.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

With the same aerial step, he passed two or three men in threadbare suits and shabby hats, who were hovering about the Persepolitan, and who carefully exchanged glances of understanding with him.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

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.