644 
FOURTH TERRACE. 
There is another division of the same building, open to the 
south, (h) thirty feet in length by forty-eight ; and terminating 
on each side (i i) towards that point, on the landing of the 
superb stairs, by a couple of square pillars of one entire piece of 
marble, about twenty-two feet high, and covered in different 
ranges with a variety of inscriptions, cuneiform, Cuphic, Arabic, 
and Persian. The first has been faithfully copied by Niebuhr ; 
that in Arabic was written in the year of the Hegira 881. The 
whole of the ground in the shell of this building, is greatly 
raised by the crumbled masses of its fallen roof, and, probably 
that of its central supports also. I must not leave this spot 
without remarking, that the faint traces of a double colonnade, 
are still visible along the open space which lies between the 
western brink of the greater terrace, and the western face of 
this building. 
I have now mentioned an ascent of three terraces from the 
natural ground of the plain. First, the grand platform which 
supports all the others. Second, the Chehel Minar terrace. 
Third, the terrace that sustains the edifice of the double 
chambers I have just described, A fourth elevation of the 
same kind, presents itself at about ninety-six feet to the south 
of the preceding. (L) Its summit is on a level with that of the 
last, but three of its sides are much obscured by the encumbering 
mounds of fragments at their base. Along the northern verge, 
parallel to the before-mentioned structure, rise the heads of a 
line of figures, in size equal to those on the stairs of the terrace 
of the double chamber; but these figures seem to be armed 
with the bow and quiver only, no trace of a spear being to be 
seen amongst them. A flight of sadly mutilated steps, in two 
ascents of fifteen each, is found at the north-western corner; 
