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XXXII. Remarks on an erroneous Explanation of one of the Inscriptions at 
Naksh-i-Rustam, occurring in the ‘“* Mémoires sur diverses Antiquités de la 
Perse, par le Baron Sitvesrre pr Sacy.” By Rozert Corton Moncey, 
Esq., Secretary Bombay Br. R.A.S. 
(Communicated by the Bombay Branch Royat Asraric Socrrry.) 
Read the 7th of March 1832. 
Tue Baron De Sacy, in his essay on the inscriptions and sculptures at 
Naksh-i-Rustam,* by way of reconciling the historical relation to the repre- 
sentation itself, is led to assert that the design illustrates the conquest of 
ArpasHir over the last sovereign of the Arsacide, or the contest for the 
crown. ‘The inscription on the horse belonging to the monarch, supposed 
to be one of the Arsacide, as copied from Niexsuur’s plate, is TOY TO 
IIPOCQIION AIOC @EOY, and M. de Sacy imagines that the Greek who 
traced it, if the word be AIOC, was ignorant of the deity whose name is 
inserted in the other inscription, 7.¢. pzrdeove, and gives it as his opinion that 
the inscription, rightly translated, originally meant, 
“ This is the representation of the god Hormuzp,” 
one of the last Sassanian kings. From an inspection of the monument, | 
conceive this to be an error. 
In the Baron De Sacy’s work,t the inscription A No. 3, belongs to the 
figures at Naksh-i-Rajab ; B No. 3, to one of the two mounted kings whom 
he supposes to be engaged in a contest for the throne, viz. to that one who 
carries a globe on his head; and C No. 3, is on the breast of the horse, 
- whose rider is engaged in disputing his opponent’s claim; it must evidently 
therefore have reference to the figures above it. 
* Mémoires sur diverses Antiquités de la Perse, etc. 4to. Paris, 1793, pp. 63 and 107, Plate I. 
The inscriptions explained in this work by the Baron de Sacy, were copied from those published 
by Niesuur. + Memoires, etc. Plate I. 
