SURNAMED ZOOLAKTAF. 
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character. Perhaps we cannot have a better proof of the latter, 
than the amity which subsisted between his sons. He commenced 
his reign, A. D. 310, with the hour of his birth ; and even in the 
morning of his youth, he performed signal exploits against the 
numerous invaders of his empire, Greeks, Tartars, and Arabs. 
From certain consequences attending his conquest over the latter, 
he assumed the added name of Zoolaktaf. The Emperors Con¬ 
stantins, Julian, and Jovian, felt also the full vengeance of his 
arms. The armies of the last prince were so severely discomfited 
on the banks of the Tigris, that he ceded to the victorious Per¬ 
sian, all the provinces which former Roman generals had won 
from that country, and left him master of a great part of Me¬ 
sopotamia and Armenia besides. This illustrious restorer of 
his country lived nearly seventy years ; and then, as has been 
said before, left his kingdom to the successive reigns of his two 
exemplary sons, Shapoor III., and Baharam IV. 
Having finished my sketch of the second arch, I proceeded to 
the only remaining sculpture on these rocks, and which is called 
by the natives, that of the Four Calendars. It consists of that 
number of figures; three erect, and one extended on the ground.* 
One of the three standing personages treads on the head of the 
prostrate figure. He wears a mural crown, surmounted by the 
Sassanian spherical form, only here it resembles a mass of curls, 
rather than the usual balloon-like surface. A chaplet of pearls 
binds the forehead; above which, between it and the diadem, 
appears a nicely arranged row of hair; a variation in this sort of 
head-dress I had never seen before. A thin floating robe, tied 
upon the breast, passes over his shoulders, and waves in fan- 
See Plate LXVI. 
