'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.' [‎335] (366/582)

VISIT TO THE RUINS OF SHAPOOR.
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short dresses, and long straight swords : these have mustachios
only; their heads are high and narrow at the top, and their hair
is cut, trimmed, and plaited in the form of a Welsh wig. What
they hold in their right hands is not distinctly seen ; and two of
them seem to have scrolls of paper in their left. These wear
loose trowsers beneath their shirts, and no neckcloths. They
follow each other closely, standing in a firm attitude, and the
style of their heads and countenances is quite peculiar. The
next compartment appears never to have been sculptured at all.
The first lower compartment on the right contains three men
on foot, with short shirts, trowsers, and sandals, without beards or
mustachios, and helmets fitting close to the brow and skull, and
falling broad over the neck and shoulders. The first of these
holds something in his right hand, in the act of presenting it, but
it is not distinct: the other two have short spears in theirs, and
each has a long straight sword, with a most disproportionately
long handle.
The next compartment, following still to the right, contains
three men on foot, with short shirts, girded around the waist by
cords, neatly knotted before, in a peculiar way, and loose flowing
trowsers. These have mustachios only, short hair, with a small
bush of curls behind, and are without any covering for the head.
The first holds in his right hand a ring, with his arm extended in
a right angle with his body ; the second rests his left hand on his
waist; and the third seems to hold a scroll in his extended
right hand.
The last compartment contains a repetition of the last three
figures, whose short shirts are girded with cords in the same way
as the former, but are curved upward at the bottom, while the
others are straight, and hemmed or bordered. Their trowsers are
the same; and, like the former figures, these are unarmed. The
first holds up, between both his hands, something in the shape of
a brick or hewn stone ; the second bears what is more like a hand
saw, of the shape still used in Persia, than any thing with which I