'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎336] (367/582)

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VISIT TO THE RUINS OF SHAPOOR.
could compare it; and the last has a circular vessel, like a very
large globular bottle, with a straight neck. These two last com
partments may possibly be meant to represent unarmed artificers
and relate to the founding and building of the city, as there are
here stones or bricks, water, and tools.
The figures in these sculptures are all as large as life, and in
little less than half-relief. The horses are very fine; all the
figures are well drawn, in good proportions, and the difference of
feature, style of countenance and costume, is very striking.
From hence we went across the stream, which was narrow,
rapid, and deep enough to take us up beyond the middle, with no
path for our horses; the water was sweet, and beautifully transpa
rent. After long exertion we made a path through the thick
rushes, and came up to a large tablet, in which were sculptured
two colossal figures on horseback, facing each other: the one on
the left had simply a high bush of curled hair, coming up through
the centre of a plain crown, and held in his right hand a ring,
which he seemed to offer to the other. The one on the right,
which appeared in other respects to be the principal figure, was
distinguished by the elevated globe rising from the centre of a
radiated diadem, and in his right hand he held a flying riband,
with something in the middle like the emblem of the winged ge
nius, on the other side ; and this he appeared also to present to the
other horseman. The dresses and general style of the whole were
like that of the chief on the other side; but the figures here are
nearly double the size of life, and in proportionately full relief.
Behind the principal hero is an inscription rudely cut.
Beneath this rock ran a channel for water, probably of more
recent date ; as the stream has there worn away the bottom of the
sculpture. Some Mohammedan visitor had taken the pains to in
scribe his name on the hard rock between the heads of the horses,
in a way that must have cost him nearly a day to perform ; but
there was no date to it. The tradition of the people here is that