in a regular and military order, marshalled as it were in echelon. Fourteen yards was the length of the whole sculpture from point to point. [Illustration: _Fragments at Shapour._ _Drawn by James Morier Esq.^r_ _Published by Mess.^{rs} Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row May 1, 1811._] [Illustration: _Sculpture at Shapour._ _Drawn by James Morier Esq.^r_ _Published by Mess.^{rs} Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, May 1, 1811._] [Illustration: _Sculpture at Shapour._ _Drawn by James Morier Esq^r._ _Published by Mess^{rs}. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, May 1, 1811._] The path that conducted us round to these beautiful monuments, is the course of an aqueduct, which appeared to be of more modern workmanship. Bordering on the road which winds behind the hill of the citadel, are numerous canals of water, formed most artificially and closely cemented with _darna_. Besides these, there are very deep wells, in parts of which the channels of the aqueduct are seen to pass. After having repassed the river, we walked over the numerous mounds of stones and earth which cover the ruined buildings of _Shapour_, and which, if ever explored, would discover innumerable secrets of antiquity. We were conducted by the peasants who were with us, to the remains of a very fine wall, which in the symmetry of its masonry equalled any Grecian work that I have ever seen. Each stone was four feet long, twenty-seven inches thick, and cut to the finest angles. This wall formed the front to a square building, the area of which is fifty-five feet. At the top were placed sphinxes couchant, a circumstance which we ascertained from discovering accidentally two eyes and a mutilated foot at the extremity of one of the upper stones. In this wall there is a window, which is arched by the formation of its upper stone. Behind this square building, we traced most correctly the configuration of a theatre, thirty paces in length, and fourteen in breadth. The place resembled at least those called theatres which I have seen in Greece. From a comparison of their positions, we were led to suppose that the building still extant must have been connected with the other behind it, and may have formed perhaps the entrance to it. [Plate XIII.]