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FIFTH BAS-RELIEF. 
associated in all works of the kind since the empire of Alexander; 
and we find traces of the same partnership, in the coins of the 
Arsacidm, with a Pehlivi legend and Grecian device. Indeed, 
from the peculiar style of this bas-relief, I would assign it to a 
Greek chisel. 
The learned Mons. de Sacey, in his “ Memoires sur les Anti- 
quites de la Perse,” gives the following translation of the inscrip¬ 
tion on the shoulder of the horse that bears the personage who 
receives the circlet. (Plate XXIII.) “ C’est ici la figure du ser- 
viteur d’Ormusd, du dieu Ardashir, roi des rois d’lran, dela race 
des dieux; fils du dieu Babec, roi.” He thus gives the Greek 
in its renovated state, having followed the copy of Niebuhr : 
TOTTO TO TTfotrawON MAC A Ac NOT 
06OT APT ugupov gewiXelUC BACIACUJN 
APIANUJN sx ysvov C ©C liUN TIOT 
©eor nAnAxou BAcnxeac 
The Greek is written on the shoulder of the animal, between 
two inscriptions ; both in Pehlivi characters. The upper one is 
extremely defaced; but the forms of its letters differ materially 
from those in the lower inscription, being similar to the cha¬ 
racters I copied in the cave near Hadjee-abad. However, what 
I was able to make out, satisfied me that it was only a re¬ 
petition of the same sense, conveyed in both the Greek and 
the lower Pehlivi inscription. 
On the shoulder of the horse, that bears the man who bestows 
the circlet, is an inscription which the same learned professor 
translates thus : (Plate XXIII.) “ C’est ici la figure du dieu 
Jupiter ;” and thus restores: 
TOurO to npociunoN ajoc ©eor. , 
