Luigi Pesce: L’antica porta d’ingrezza, Salted paper print from paper negative photograph from 1858 of the Gate of Xerxes. That’s how it looks today. 5th century B.C. [4134×6000].
Luigi Pesce: L’antica porta d’ingrezza, Salted paper print from paper negative photograph from 1858 of the Gate of Xerxes. That’s how it looks today. 5th century B.C. [4134×6000].
A pair of massive bulls secured the western entrance; two Lamassu in the Assyrian style, albeit, of colossal proportions, stood at the eastern doorway. Engraved above each of the four colossi is a trilingual inscription attesting to Xerxes having built and fulfilled the gate. The doorway on the south, opening toward the Apadana, is the widest of the three. Pivoting devices found on the inner corners of all the doors indicate that they must have had two-leaved doors, which were possibly made of wood and covered with sheets of ornamented metal.
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A pair of massive bulls secured the western entrance; two Lamassu in the Assyrian style, albeit, of colossal proportions, stood at the eastern doorway. Engraved above each of the four colossi is a trilingual inscription attesting to Xerxes having built and fulfilled the gate. The doorway on the south, opening toward the Apadana, is the widest of the three. Pivoting devices found on the inner corners of all the doors indicate that they must have had two-leaved doors, which were possibly made of wood and covered with sheets of ornamented metal.