'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.' [‎339] (370/582)

VISIT TO THE RUINS OF SHAPOOR.
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before him, and he holding another with the same dress, in his
right-hand. It is, in short, a perfect miniature of the large de
sign described on the other side, except that here, instead of the
attitudes of the two soldiers standing before, one of them, in a Sas-
sanian dress, is presenting the chief with a ring in the usual way.
Above is the winged genius, but I could perceive no inscription.
Behind them are men leading a mule, to judge by the form of its
tail; one bearing a large burthen on his head, and followed by ano
ther riding on an elephant; while above them, in the same com
partment, are six bareheaded figures, shrouded in loose drapery,
like veils or mantles hung before them. Behind the sovereign, in
the left of the same compartment, are fifteen or sixteen horsemen,
the first five of which only have the bushy hair of the chief; and
as these were probably officers, it confirms the idea of this being a
mark of distinction.
In the left-hand compartment below, the same design of horse
men is repeated,—the dresses being also the same, and the hair
of all the figures short and uncurled.
In the right-hand lower compartment, the first figure seems,
by his bare head and long robes, to be a priest: with one hand he
leans on a staff, with the other he holds the egg-like emblem horizon
tally, as if to present it to his sovereign. Next follows one in the
same dress and the same attitude, bearing a large vase. After this,
one in a Roman dress, with the short shirt, and mantle clasped
on the right shoulder, bears a standard in his right-hand, and with
his left holds the reins of two horses, or, judging by their long
ears, perhaps very handsome mules, who draw a chariot of three
stages, with small but broad round wheels. Over the heads of
the mules, another figure, also bareheaded, and in the same Ro
man dress, holds the egg horizontally in both hands, extended
aloft to their full stretch. The two succeeding figures are much
broken, but seem to be men bearing small heavy sacks, as if of
treasure, on their backs.
The figures in the compartments to the right of, or fronting
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