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 4o8 History of Art in Anth^uitv. be supplemented by the inhabited paUiccs ; for instance, that of Darius, where the theme is repeated, though in another situation, namely, on the parapet walls of the stairs (Fig. i6). Thus, in the hands of several men mounting the steps are duplicates of those vases that are so plentiful in the great bas-relief of the hypostyle hall. Some carry rounded objects, very like a casket in shape, whilst others press a kid to their chest.' Elsewhere, in the Fig. 196.— Pefwpolit. Double-humped Bactrian cnmcl. Flakmn tod COSTB, Pent . • • amientu, Plate CVIII. Palace of Ochus; the figures are clothed in the short tunic ; their lower limbs and feet are bare ; both arms are used to steady on their shoulder a crescent-shaped object, which can be naught but an elephants tusk (Fig. 197). The lions' skins hunters are about to lay at the feet of the Lord of Asia are doubtless earnest-money from conquered India (Fig. 198). In this manner did the sculptor strive to introduce variety of detail and novel forms in the figured decoration from one palace to another ; do what he would, however, he could not avoid a certain ^ A man is figured in the Palace of Xerxes as leading by the horn n w3d goat Diyiiized by Googl