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head which is not erect but turned on one side ; and the ornamental 

 work on the left side of the cap, is not found on the right side ; the 

 right side was therefore probably concealed. 



It is very desirable that further enquiry should be made for a few 

 more fragments, in the spot where this head No. 2, was found ; the 

 head in Plate XIX., is common enough ; and has evidently no con- 

 nection with the other. 



Has Sa^dy of Shyrds written RSJchtah verses? — By A. Sprenger, 

 Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 



It has been asserted in the Journal Asiatique IV. Serie, Vol. I. p. 1 

 and Vol. II. p. 361, that the celebrated author of the Gulistan (died A. 

 H. 691) has written Rekhtah verses. The subject appears to be of suf- 

 ficient interest to justify the publication of the original passages which 

 bear on it. The assertion rests on a passage in the Tadzkirah of Qayim, 

 which was compiled in A. H. 1168, and is called o^i dj±* (the title 

 is a chronogram). But Gurdezy who wrote a Tadzkirah in 1165, 

 that is to say, three years before Qayim most emphatically contradicts 

 this assertion, which in those days seems to have been popular, and he 

 points out the true author of the verses ascribed to Sa'dy Shyrazy. 

 After these two Tadzkirahs had been compiled, Myr Taqyy and 

 Shorish wrote short biographies of Rekhtah poets, and both contradict 

 this statement. 



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