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tastic folds down bis sides. A single band encircles his waist, 
confining the drapery of the vest, which falls as low as his knees. 
The trowsers are like those already described. His left hand 
rests upon his hip, and his right is stretched forth, grasping the 
usual royal symbol of the circlet, or cydaris, with floating ties. 
The centre figure also takes hold of this symbol with his right 
hand ; his left appears touching the hilt of his sword, which 
hangs at his side. He is richly belted, and his neck adorned 
with a magnificent collar. No drapery appears floating on his 
garments, excepting some streamers from his dagger, which is 
worn in the style of the two figures within the lesser arch. His 
head is covered with a kind of scull-cap, crested with a huge 
ball, and bound round the temples with a fillet. He wears a 
vest and full trowsers, like his companion. The personage to 
the right of the centre figure, is of rather a singular appearance. 
His head is protected by a similar kind of cap, but without the 
ball, and with the extraordinary addition of a circle of rays, 
blazing round his head, and down to below his shoulders. He 
holds in both hands a fluted staff, or sceptre, of great length. 
The rest of his vesture nearly resembles that of the murally 
crowned figure. He stands upon a plant, not unlike a sun¬ 
flower, the stalk of which is short and thick, and curved down 
into a lower part of the rock. The prostrate person is greatly 
mutilated; but his pearl-wreath, collar, and sword, shew that 
his consequence was not inferior to the two who trample on him. 
The execution of this bas-relief, in comparison with those in the 
great arch of Khosroo Purviz, is wretchedly rude; and so much 
in the rough taste which commemorates Shapoor Zoolaktaf and 
his son, in the lesser arch, that I have no doubt of its being 
the work of the same chisel. There being no inscription what- 
