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war in the human breast, and making men angels, it has restored 
wandered human nature from the ruthless ferocity of utter 
selfishness, to the nobler dispositions of man; and, by uniting 
humanity with ambition, has divested war of its most terrible 
horrors. 
The fourth bas-relief (Plate XXII.) is a repetition of the single 
combat described in the second bas-relief, between Baharam 
Gour and his adversary the Tartar prince. This new edition, 
if I may be allowed to call it so, of the same story, though much 
mutilated, is in better preservation than the former, is designed 
with more animation, and executed in a higher style, though the 
horses are equally clumsy, and the riders disproportioned to 
their size. The principal figure is by far too small for the bulk 
of his steed. His head is crowned with a diadem in this bas- 
relief ; in the other it was protected by a helmet: both, however, 
bear the usual badge of the royal head-dress assumed since the 
destruction of the Grecian dynasty, the balloon shape in the 
center. This crown is not of a bonnet form, like that he wears 
in the sculpture commemorating his re-union with his queen; 
nor of the mural shape worn (nearly three hundred years after 
his death) by Shapoor, one of his posterity, whose bas-relief we 
have just been viewing; but it is of three bending points, each 
end surmounted by a rounded ornament, as well as the middle 
pinnacle, which holds the usual oval form. Over the whole of 
this warrior’s body, may be traced the originally perfect coat of 
small plate-mail. From the bottom of his waist, spreading over 
the back of the horse, appears an additional defence of scales, 
very nicely executed; and over it hangs a quiver, of too immense 
a size for arrows; hence, we must conclude it held the kind of 
darts then in use, and which we still see amongst the moun- 
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