SCULPTURED ROCK. 
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Chardin, Thevenot, Kaempfer, Mandelslo, and many other travellers, 
have noticed these sculptures; but as none of them had seen Shapour, 
which affords an easy explanation not only to these, but to the many 
similar ones that exist in Persia, they do not even attempt an explana¬ 
tion of them. 
