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SHIRAZ TO PERSEPOLIS. 
He asked my opinion on the probable design of these sculptures, and 
when I had told him my own conceptions, he assured me, that the 
royal personage here also was Rustam ; and when I reminded him that 
their own traditional King, Jemsheed, might possibly be the hero, 
he replied in the true spirit of a system, “Jemsheed was but the 
“ slave of Rustam.” Of the figures grasping the ring, one again 
(according to the same theory) was Rustam, in the act of proving his 
strength, by wrenching it from the other's hand. 
