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Palace and Administrative Quarter. Ai Khanoum, Takhar Province.

1970
Some of the bases were tremendously large. The general conception, ostentation and monumentality of this public building had parallels in Achaemenid Persia. The grandness, however, decreased on passing into the domestic quarters.
Photo: Louis Dupree

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NATIONAL MUSEUM I - BCE (Before Common Era)
1970<br />
Some of the bases were tremendously large. The general conception, ostentation and monumentality of this public building had parallels in Achaemenid Persia. The grandness, however, decreased on passing into the domestic quarters. <br />
Photo: Louis Dupree