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Ing a globe on his head. The figures to the left are beckoning as it 
were to the others on the right. There is besides another curious 
figure at full length, behind the rock close to the sculpture, but still 
making part of the same piece. 
More in the centre of the whole extent of rock, and nearly under 
the base of a tomb, is a very spirited piece of sculpture, representing 
the combat of two horsemen, who are in the very shock of the engage¬ 
ment. (Plate XVI.) The figure on the left (as the spectator fronts 
them) has an immense crown with three balls on the top of three pyra- 
midical points. Another ball of the same sort is on his right shoulder; 
and another on the summit of his horse’s head. On the full stretch of 
his horse he presents his lance, which is seen to pass through the throat 
of his adversary, A quiver hangs by his side, and a sort of armour 
covers his middle, and the back part of his horse. A figure behind 
hin}, apparently his standard-bearer, holds a kind of ensign, which is 
a staff crossed at the top and ornamented with five balls. The re¬ 
mainder is admirably executed, and represents the other horse thrown 
backwards on his haunches from the shock of the first cavalier’s onset, 
aitd the spear of his rider broken. The helmet, with which the second 
horseman’s head is crowned, is more Grecian, than any which I saw 
among the ruins; and the whole, though much effaced, is executed 
with better proportions and effect than any of the others. 
After this I was delighted and surprised to find an exact copy,, 
though in a gigantic scale, of the subject at Shapour , with one person in 
a Roman dress on his knees before the horse’s head, and another 
whose hands are seized by the rider. Under the horse’s belly is a long 
Greek inscription, of which I could make out only a few characters. 
There are, besides, other characters similar to those at Shapour , of which 
the annexed is a specimen. (See plate XXIX.) 
Next to this, is a sculpture containing three figures : the one in the 
middle has a crown and globe on his head; his right hand is extended 
towards a female figure on his left, and they both grasp a ring. The 
