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 98 Shams-ud-dins Gateways and Tomb. portion of the vertical band of inscription and measuring about three feet by two feet, may be seen at the Kensington Museum. It is a good specimen of Pathan ornament of the thirteenth century a. d., its actual date being about a. d. 1229. The general surface is flat and is not strongly marked by any contrasting effects of shadows ; but the foliated work and ingenious treatment of the Arabic characters, intermingled with ornament, exhibit the fertile and facile imagination which the original designer was enabled to bring to bear upon the invention of his work.