Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . , while the hilt is clasped in bothhands which rest over it. The style of dress, including theballoon-shaped headgear, is characteristically Sasanian and theidentity of each king is made known by the inscription besideit. Sapor II, son of Hormizd, stands to the right, and his sonSapor III to the left. The former reigned for seventy years( 309-379) during a period which was one of the brightestin Sasanian history, though stained by cruel persecution of the 1 See Justi, Life and Legen
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . , while the hilt is clasped in bothhands which rest over it. The style of dress, including theballoon-shaped headgear, is characteristically Sasanian and theidentity of each king is made known by the inscription besideit. Sapor II, son of Hormizd, stands to the right, and his sonSapor III to the left. The former reigned for seventy years( 309-379) during a period which was one of the brightestin Sasanian history, though stained by cruel persecution of the 1 See Justi, Life and Legend of come and trodden under foot. They Zarathushtra in Avesta Studies, etc., regard the figure with the halo as prob- in Honour of Peshotanji Sanjana, ably Zoroaster, and seem to associate p. 157, Strassburg, 1904. The Zoro- it in some way with a sculpture at astrians of Yezd gave me a meta- Balkh, but they did not appear to be physical explanation of the sculpture, quite positive on the subject,interpreting the prostrate figure as 2 See also my Zoroaster, p. 291. representing ones evil nature over- ^m^. Till, LVKdKK AM) THK SMALLKU Ak*?,::.
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