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REMARKS ON NIEBUHR’S INSCRIPTION. 
terminate near the ankles in a couple of waving ends. A rich 
collar binds the top of his vest, and an additional crossed band 
of pearls appears below it; the waist also is bound by a cestus 
of the same costly material. The present king, Futteh Ali Shah, 
wears a similar ornament on days of ceremony. The remains 
of a high diadem, and its balloon summit, finish the regal dress. 
Both hands are broken away. The trappings of the horse differ 
little from the caparison we saw on Shapoor’s stately animal 
at Nakshi-Roustam, and has a similar chain or rope, attached to 
an acorn-tassel, now almost obliterated. An inscription, both 
in Greek and Pehlivi, is engraved on the breast of the horse; 
but part of the latter runs out on the wall, just before and under 
the nose of the animal. I subjoin the renovation of the Greek 
by Mons. de Sacey, in his Memoires sur les Antiquites de la Perse , 
§c. He has followed Niebuhr’s copy, which, strange to say, 
having been made so many years anterior to mine, exhibits an 
inscription much more defaced than I found it. This may be 
seen, by comparing the large letters in my copy on the drawing, 
with the large letters in this; the smaller being introduced by 
the learned foreigner to complete the general sense. 
to npOcwrroN totto mao«cnot ©got 
CAIIop OT &ACTAGUJC SACIAGLUv «p<«NU)N 
KAI ANAPIAvUJN Gx yeNOTC ©GUJv viov 
MAQaCNOT ©GOT APT«£APOT Seuri 
BACIAGUJN APIANUJN GK TGNO^ 
GK rONOT ©GOT nAITAKOT BACIAs^. 
“ C’est ici la figure du serviteur d’Ormuzd, du dieu Sapor, roi 
des rois de l’lran et du Touran, de la race des dieux; fils du 
serviteur d’Ormuzd, du dieu Ardashir, roi des rois de l’lran, de 
la race des dieux, petit fils du dieu Babeck roi.” 
