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Authors: Robert Byron
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Gerald Reitlinger in his
Tower of Skulls
, p. 99, notes another sculpture of this type on the main face of the bulge beside the Sasanian king's feet, where a “king in a kind of tight-fitting dressing gown sits on a throne formed of a folded snake”.
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Erymurus luteus
.
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The oleaster.