Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 388
the occasion of my visit to Tak-iBostan. I shall briefly describe the composition of the sculp-tured group.2 The two figures to the right represent personages of royalrank ; the central one is a king who stands with a triumphantair, his left hand on his sword and his right hand grasping a rib- 1… … The jSimbus-ckowned Figukk SA8ANIAN BAS-RELIEFS 217 bon-decked coronet, which he receives from or hestows upon asecond personage of lofty bearing. The latter stands beforehim with the right hand on the chaplet and the left restinggracefully upon the hip. Both figures wear crowns, the centralone a…
Zoroastrianism
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