Opiniones

Several of the plates represent the figures sculptured on rocks at Shapour and Nakshi Rustam. These are mere outlines, which consequently can pretend to no other merit than that of correctness. The editor indeed takes their accuracy for granted, and adduces it in corroboration of his own hypothesis, which he supports with a good deal of plausibility in a memoir in the appendix, p. 375, that the city of shapour was built by Sapor the first as a memorial of the defeat, captivity, and servitude of the emperor Valerian. P.74