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'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎245] (276/582)

The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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STATUE.—TOWN OF KOMESHAE. 245
at Hamadan, Goolpyegan, and Ispahan, standing in different parts
of these towns. The statue at this place was now thrown down,
and lying on its side in the high road; though, from its being the
only one we could hear of near the spot, it is likely to have been
the same as that noted by Mr. Morier, on one of the tombs near;
and thought by him to be of very great antiquity. This lion, for
such it was most probably intended to represent, had a naked
sword sculptured along the side that lay uppermost, and on its
blade were two lengthened circles, in the form of a Roman O.
Mr. Niebuhr, in his description of the gymnastic exercises at
Shiraz, in the public-houses called Surshore, says, that the cham
pion in these feats of strength is allowed to put a lion on his
tomb ; and tells a story of his mistake in this respect, on seeing
lions on tombs, near that place, (p. 143). This statue was there
fore probably one that decorated the grave of some such cham
pion who had died here, and might have been of comparatively
recent date, as its form was of the rudest kind, and its whole ap
pearance that of a work from a modern Mohammedan artist.
After leaving this place, we entered the town of Komeshae by
a mean gate; the place being encompassed by a wall of brick,
coated with mud, of moderate height, strengthened by circular
bastions, and having a dry ditch on the north side. The interior
showed a series of new dwellings, raised on the ruins of older ones;
and after passing through a line of roofed bazaars, we alighted at
a small caravansera there.
The town of Komeshae is about the size of Goolpyegan; but
more than half the buildings included within its walls, are aban
doned and in ruins. Among them are seen several large edifices,
probably the dwellings of governors at different times; and two
mosques, a public bath, and closed bazaars, are left to testify that
the former population of the town was greater than at present,
there being now scarcely five hundred resident inhabitants.
We found here more general misery from want, than we had
seen elsewhere; there being, first, an absolute scarcity of all the

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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.

The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."

Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.

Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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1 volume (545 pages)
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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).

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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).

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