pre-Persian
- a word derived from Persian.
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Little was known of the buildings on the Acropolis in the pre-Persian period before the great excavations of 1885-1888, which rank among the most surprising achievements of modern research.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
His geographical ideas, in fact, went back to the greater Cilicia of pre-Persian time, which had been one of the "four great powers of Asia."
From The Ancient East by Hogarth, D. G. (David George)
Let us now compare the nomenclature of the pre-Persian and Periclean temples.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
Furthermore just such cyma pieces have been discovered belonging to other structures in Olympia and amid the pre-Persian ruins on the Acropolis of Athens.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
Lolling maintains that the eastern cella of the Parthenon was the Parthenon proper, that the western room of the Parthenon was the opisthodomos, and that the νεως ό Έκατόμπεδος was the pre-Persian temple.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
