FIRST ANCIENT BAS-RELIEF. 
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and we find them attached to various parts of the regal dress in all 
these remains of antiquity. His hair, as I observed before, is full, 
flowing, and curled; having nothing of the stiff wig-appearance 
so remarkable in the bas-reliefs of the race of Cyrus. The 
beard of this figure is very singularly disposed. On the upper 
lip, it is formed like mustachios ; and grows from the front of the 
ear, down the whole of the jaw, in neat short curls ; but on the 
chin it becomes a great length, (which, as I have noticed be¬ 
fore, seems to be alasting attribute of royalty in Persia,) and is 
tied together, just at the point of the chin, whence it hangs like 
a large tassel. At his ear is the fragment of an immense pearl, 
and a string of the same is round his neck. His outer robe, or 
scarf, is fastened on the chest by a double round clasp, and 
devolves down his back. His tunic has tight long sleeves, and 
is bound by a belt which passes over the right hip: the folds of 
the tunic at the top of the belt, are well expressed in the stone. 
To the other side of this girdle, it is probable the sword is at¬ 
tached, the hilt of which he is grasping with his left hand. But 
the whole of the rock in this part, over half his figure, and 
stretching on to the right-side outline of the opposite personage, 
is deplorably broken away. On my arrival afterwards at Shiraz, 
a Persian artist showed me a very old drawing of this bas-relief, 
where the present mutilated space was filled by the upper part 
of the figure of a boy, crowned with a diadem like the person¬ 
age on the left, (whom I am about to describe,) and, like the 
figure of the king, clasping the hilt of his sword with the left 
hand. 
The personage on the left is, without doubt, a woman ; the 
outline of the form making it evident. On her head, we see a 
large crown of a mural shape; and from its top, where the 
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