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Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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the most lovely model for his skill, the peerless Shirene. But, though the love of the artist may very naturally be the fact, yet the self-sacrifice on the body of her husband, which, (notwithstanding certain tales in poetry,) is gene-rally believed, may assuredly clear her purity of this aspersion. Khosroo Purviz had reigned thirty-eight years at the time ofhis dismal overthrow; and, from his history, it appears that hedid not want courage in his early years, though by the conductof his latter life, he made the former accounts hard to be credited; and left nothing so much remembered of him, in his country, asthese stories of his magnificence, with wild legends of his uxorious loves, and cruel jealousy of the ill-fated passion of the unfortunate Ferhaud. In short, no object of admiration, natural or artificial, can be enquired about in these districts, that is not immediately attributed in some way to this king, in honour of his adored Shirene. I shall first describe the objects of interest
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4 MOUNTAIN OF TACKT-I-BOSTAN. 169 at Tackt-i-Bostan, and then notice how far they appear to agreewith the circumstances they are reported to represent. The first consist of two lofty and deep arches, excavated withgreat labour and skill in the rock of the mountain. Within these artificial caverns, I found several bas-reliefs, executed to a very high degree of excellence, but the details of which I shall reserve to a few pages onward. The mountain of Tackt-i-Bostanforms a part of the chain of Be-Sitoon; and like it, is craggy, barren, and terrific Its aspect, as we approach it, is of the most rugged grandeur; and its towering heights, lowering dark overthe blooming vale of Kermanshah, make so striking a contrast,that it might well recall the image of the beautiful queen, in all her perpetual noon of charms, seated smiling at the feet of theaged monarch, hoary with years and the troubles of a wounded spirit. At the base of this sombre mountain, bursts forth the most exquisitely pellucid str

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