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FIFTH BAS-RELIEF. 
standard carried in their train. But, I confess, the number and 
arrangement of the globes on the cross-bar are not nearly so 
expressive of the matter, as the description of the solar olive- 
branch. 
The opponent hero in this bas-relief, like the corresponding 
warrior in the other it resembles, is sadly defaced; however, 
parts of armour are still discernible on him also. He wears a 
high helmet, surmounted by a ball or tuft, and floating ribbands ; 
he has similar waving appendages to his heels, and on other 
parts of his person; thence, from what was observed before, lie 
can be no other than a royal personage. His spear is elevated 
and broken ; that of his adversary seems to have passed through, 
or near to his neck. The horses are grouped together admirably. 
From tail to tail, they measure twenty feet. The warrior with 
the diadem is eleven feet six inches in height; but the lower 
part of the bas-relief, like the other it resembles, is half buried 
in the earth. Indeed, I cannot have a doubt that this is only a 
repetition, but better executed, of the great exploit of Baharam 
Gour, effected by the stratagem of the pebbles. The dresses 
are something different, but the persons and the action, nearly 
the same in both. Fie was a monarch so suited to the 
Persian character, and so entirely beloved, it cannot be a subject 
of surprise to find the memorials of his reign often repeated. 
The next in rotation (Plate XXIII.) presents a piece of 
sculpture, that has been drawn by almost every traveller who 
approached the spot, and could use a pencil. But, on com¬ 
paring all the outlines I had seen, with the original, I found 
them, everyone, far from correct representations. In some, a 
careless eye was evident; in others, so extreme a delicacy of taste, 
that, by always guiding its pencil true to the perfection' of the 
