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ἱππεύς. Neither at Behistun nor on his tomb at Nakhsh-IRustam is Darius represented on horseback. (For illustrations of these monuments cf. Maspero, iii. 681-3, 736-7.) But H. may well have seen some equestrian ‘relief’, now destroyed, resembling the façade of Tagh-I-Bostan (Perrot, v. 534).

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