A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . lo- fio. ü9.—Gem with For- nized his Roman prisoners in Gund-i-Shapnr, a *^^j* «f »apor I. (Gar- ^ ^ net in Gotha.) city once famous, among other things, for its medical schools. It lay between Shuster and Dizful, but has nowcompletely disappeared. The triumph of Sapor over Valerian isrepeatedly immortalized in reliefs. At Naksh-i-Rustam (Fig. 70),between the second and third tombs, the king is shown on horse-back, wearing the battlemented crown and the silken head-dressexactly as he is represented on his
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . lo- fio. ü9.—Gem with For- nized his Roman prisoners in Gund-i-Shapnr, a *^^j* «f »apor I. (Gar- ^ ^ net in Gotha.) city once famous, among other things, for its medical schools. It lay between Shuster and Dizful, but has nowcompletely disappeared. The triumph of Sapor over Valerian isrepeatedly immortalized in reliefs. At Naksh-i-Rustam (Fig. 70),between the second and third tombs, the king is shown on horse-back, wearing the battlemented crown and the silken head-dressexactly as he is represented on his coins; before him, on hisknees, suing for mercy, is the emperor. Far richer is a piece ofsculpture at Shapur, in which more tlian a hundred figures, manyon horseback, are seen, bringing weapons, wreaths, and drinking-utensils. In the vicinity, the king is fashioned, full length, in astatue nearly twenty-two feet in height, standing before a grotto(Figs. 71, 72). He wears a close-fitting Avrinkled dress; his lefthand clasps his sword-hilt, his right rests on his side. The absence. 264 THE E2IPIBE OF THE SASSÄNIANS.
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