Here, too, Persian avarice had been busy; for anciently this shrine had possessed a second statue, which was a human figure twelve cubits high, made of solid gold.

The shrine was also rich in private offerings.

Outside the building, but within the sacred enclosure, were two altars, a smaller one of gold, on which it was customary to offer sucklings, and a larger one, probably of stone, where the worshippers sacrificed full-grown victims.
The great palace was a building of still larger dimensions than the great temple.

According to Diodorus, it was situated within a triple enclosure, the innermost wall being twenty stades, the second forty stades, and the outermost sixty stades (nearly seven miles), in circumference.

The outer wall was built entirely of plain baked brick.
The middle and inner walls were of the same material, fronted with enamelled bricks representing hunting scenes.