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of his dress is distinctly delineated. I assign this subject to the sculp* 
ture, because no other personage of rival dignity appears in the piece; 
and because the attitude of the chief announces parade and command; 
for he presents a full face to the spectator, and his right hand, though 
now much mutilated, still rests on his side to indicate his ease and his 
independence. Nine figures, of which the first is nine feet high, wait 
behind him; and, from the marks of respect in which they stand, can 
be attendants only on his grandeur. On each side of his head swells 
an immense circumference of curls; he wears an embossed necklace, 
which falls low on his breast, and is therefore, perhaps, rather the upper 
termination of his garment; but its counterpart, an ornament of the 
same description round the waist, is certainly a girdle. His cloak is 
fastened on his left breast by two massive clasps. A rich belt is car* 
ried from his right shoulder to his left hip, across an under garment, 
which, from the extreme delicacy of its folds, appears to be formed of 
a very fine cloth or muslin. The drapery of some loose trowsers, 
which cover his legs down to the very ancles, displays equal delicacy, 
and is probably, therefore, of the same texture. From the ancles a 
sort of bandage extends itself in flowing folds, and adds a rich finish 
to the whole. On the thigh there appears to hang a dagger. The horse 
is splendidly accoutred with chains of a circular ornament: his length, 
from the breast to the tail, is seven feet two inches; and on the chest is 
a Greek inscription, of which the letters are about an inch in height, 
and correspond in form with those of the latter empire. 
Opposite to this sculpture, in the same recess and on the right of the 
first, is another, containing the same two figures on horseback, holding 
a ring, which we had seen at Shapour and at Nakshi Rustam. On the 
general merit of these remains, I may say, that they are superior to 
those at Nakshi Rustam, and equal to those at Shapour . 
When I had sketched these monuments, and completed my observa¬ 
tions, I hastened to join my party, who were then considerably ad¬ 
vanced. A man who filled some station about the camp joined me. 
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