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THIRD BAS-RELIEF. 
his people, and dreaded by his enemies, before the fatal ca¬ 
tastrophe befel him in the chase, which terminated his life, 
, A.D. 438. 
The third bas-relief (Plate XXL) is found in a perfect state, 
when compared with the others; and consists of four figures. 
The principal one is mounted on horseback, and certainly a king, 
from his whole attire. His crown is mural-pointed, and sur¬ 
mounted with the huge balloon-shaped mass of the former 
sculptures. The hair from under this diadem, which is not 
otherwise ornamented, flows on each side of the head in thick 
bunches of curls. The face is well cut with a marked expression 
of stern pride. The beard is disposed like that of the king in 
the first bas-relief. This figure too has a large pearl hanging to 
his ear, and a string of the same round his neck. A robe, 
clasped upon the breast, floats in ample waves at his back. His 
tunic resembles that already described on the person of the king 
in the first bas-relief; but here we see the whole of it; there, 
only to the hip. In this figure, it flows in many a twisting in¬ 
tricate fold to half-way down the thigh, where it meets a button, 
which seems to confine a trowser of a similar drapery kind of 
taste, and reaches as low as the ancle : there, the foot is broken 
off; but we still see a pair of ribband-like streamers which have 
been attached to it. His left hand clinches the hilt of his sword, 
which hangs to his belt, with the ends of a sword-knot pendant 
from the hilt. His right arm is stretched out, while he grasps 
in that hand the clasped hands of a person, who stands in that 
posture of submission before the head of his horse. The trap¬ 
pings of the animal are simple: a large rose ornaments the 
breast-plate or leather so called, resting nearly on the shoulder 
of the horse; a second decoration of the same kind is attached 
