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this eventful country, may lead to some elucidating re-con¬ 
sideration of the subject. Meanwhile I shall just remark, that 
with regard to any particular restriction being laid on a peculiar 
way of wearing the turban, it is probable the privilege would be 
extended in the course of time; and besides, the various 
changes of dynasties which, in the flow of several centuries, 
succeeded the immediate line of Hystaspes, could not but annul 
by neglect, a law of fashions, then of no importance to maintain. 
On the coin of Baharam Gour that is in my possession, and 
which I have mentioned before as containing three profiles, the 
king, queen, and young prince, (Plate LVIII. fig. 4.) the two 
latter wear tiaras of this leaning-forward shape, crested at the 
projecting points with the head of an animal; that over the 
female brow, appearing to be a bull’s or a cow’s; that on the 
boy’s, a hawk’s. This form of bonnet, when found with these 
decorations on any bas-reliefs of the Sassanian age, seems 
generally appropriated to women and youths ; but when plain, at 
least without prominent ornament, it probably belonged to the 
several orders of officers about the court; and the different flat 
marks we see on it, either when so bent, or when worn quite 
rounded, are likely to have been badges of the respective rank 
or function of the wearer. That similar distinguishing uses have 
been made of the shape or colour of a cap in after times, in 
Persia, we find in the history of the Kuzel-bash, or 44 golden¬ 
headed” tribes, who associated themselves to place the Sefi 
family on the throne. 
Having examined, to the utmost of my power, the remains of 
antiquity on the rock, I turned to some interesting objects near 
its base. Immediately opposite to the third tomb, and about 
twenty yards distant from the rock, stands a building similar to 
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