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Victory relief of Shapur at Naqs-i Rustam, Persia, c.260 AD
Picture source: antikforever
Referennced as figure 32 in The Enemies of Rome from Hannibal to Attila the Hun by Philip Matyszak
32 Victory relief of Shapur at Naqs-i Rustam. The cloaked figure kneeling before the king is the captured emperor Valerian, and from this pose it is easy to understand the tradition that Shapur was in the habit of using him as a human mounting-block to get onto his horse.