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‘ A glance at the proportions of the Persian column, its thin and airy aspect would, almost by itself, make it clear that it would have been a poor support for a stone entablature.’⁷ We have seen above that the Indian column is generally bulky. ‘ The shaft of the Persian column is always tall and slender. In the Palace of the thirty-six columns at Persepolis, the total height of the order, with base and crown, is in the proportion of twelve to one diameter of the shaft; whilst in the Pasargadae specimen, whose capital has disappeared, the proportions are more airy and light.’¹ ‘The Susian column, whose head is now in the Louvre, best characterizes the architecture of the Achaemenide sovereigns.’²