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On the façade of the rock-tombs referred to above, ‘we have seen the king in the act of prayer, standing before an altar upon which the celestial fire is burning.’ Up to the present nothing of this kind has been, however, found in Persia, though in many places monuments have been noticed to which the name of *atesh-gah* (fire-places) is applied by the natives. But for their dimensions, that are on a larger scale than those of the altars figured in the upper division of the royal tombs, crowned with sacrificial fire, they might be taken as replicas of these.