6% Major-General Straton's Description of the 



of the hero. His left side is advanced, — he carries before him 

 two prisoners, whom he holds round the waist ; he carries, in 

 the same manner, two behind him, in his right arm ; the legs 

 and arms of the four thus carried dangle in the air ; the iron 

 grasp of the hero is finely pourtrayed by the small and com- 

 pressed waists of the four figures. Behind are two rows of 

 prisoners, five in each row, with their wrists bound, and tied 

 across the body, whom the hero drags along by a cord : in 

 front of the hero is his car, and the reins are girt round his 

 body ; he has a knife in one hand. The figures carried by 

 the hero are much larger than those dragged by the cord, 

 denoting the superior rank of the former. This groupe is 

 highly executed, particularly the muscular action of the right 

 leg of the hero. We see more groupes of prisoners, some 

 having the wrists, others the elbows, bound with ropes. The 

 hero presents them to a seated deity — another deity and Isis 

 Lunata are standing behind ; — the hero holds by the hair a 

 number of the vanquished, who are on their knees : the hero 

 makes offerings to the deity. The portrait of the hero is the 

 same throughout, but his dress differs. In his car, and in 

 the battle scenes, he wears a h el meted cap ; when he holds 

 the vanquished, or receives presentations, a very high cap ; — 

 and when he is seen making offerings, and presentations of 

 lotus flowers in gratitude to the deity, he wears the low close 

 cap of humility and devotion. In all, he has hovering over him 

 his tutelary genius. The wall is here a good deal broken ; 

 we discover horses dead, wounded, dying or pawing in pain, 

 — chariots upset, or dashed to pieces. The figure of the 

 horses of the hero is peculiarly elegant and spirited. He has 

 on his car quivers and bows ; I also reckoned three human 

 heads on the car. Similar scenes, but a little varied, occur ; 

 the hero holds a large figure whom he prepares to transfix, 

 and crushes a smaller (inferior person) under his foot. The 

 hero, in his car, with an uplifted long knife, prepares to make 

 a blow at a person (of consequence from his size) who is by the 

 side of his horses. The enemy are falling — the hero drives 

 over them ;— one man looks behind, with a scared aspect, and 

 endeavours to save his cattle. 



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