Volume 1

Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, etc. &c. during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / By Sir Robert Ker Porter. With numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.

  • Robert Ker Porter
Date:
1821-1822
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, etc. &c. during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / By Sir Robert Ker Porter. With numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TAHAMURS Introduces the worship of images. JEMSHEED, Recorded as the founder of Persepolis, and contemporary with Zohawk tyrant of Assyria, supposed to be the Nimrop of Scripture. FERIDOON. Eric. MANUCHEBER. Novuzer. ° Zoou, —Kersuap, ARBACES of the Greeks, and TicLaTH PILESER of the Scriptures. With him closes the Paishdadian race, according to the native historians. -More regular and authentic accounts, Greek and native, record the next line, called the © Began to reign, KAIANIAN DYNASTY. B. C. 709. ssseseeeeeeeKAI-KOBAD,—DeEsocEs of the Greeks, and ARrPHaxap of the Bible. During his reign, and those of his immediate descendants, the celebrated Persian chief, Rustam, or Roostam, distinguished himself in the service of Persia. 656. vsevceeeeeee-PHRAORTES, The son of the preceding. He is omitted by the Persian historians; and his reign may probably be included in the very long one they ascribe to Kai-Kobad. ‘Their dates are very inaccurate, and the confusion of places and persons, often as much so. 634. sececseeeeeeKAt KAoos,—CyaxarEs I. of the Greeks. In his time Nineveh was destroyed by the king of Babylon and himself, who had united their forces against it. 594. vccccccceess ASTYAGES, The son of the preceding, is omitted by the Persians, and so is his son, 559. ssseeeeeeeesCYAXARES I].—Danivs, the Mede, of the Bible, Both these reigns being included, by the native writers, in that of the succeeding one. 536. o+++000e44Kar Kosroo,—Cyrus of the Greeks, and of the Scriptures. The Persians make his reign commence B. C. 599, by their omission of his immediate predecessor. He is succeeded by his son,
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