Antakiya, Like Paradise

From D13.13, Anooshirvan Defeats Caesar’s Army. It illustrates D13.13.59–68:

D13.13.59
The men of rank who wore the crown’s bright sign,With Caesar’s treasurers, formed a suppliant line.
D13.13.60
They gave their treasures to Iran’s great king,The wealth that Roman coffers forth could bring.
D13.13.61
Iranians bound the warriors of that land,On elephants they set them by command.
D13.13.62
The Shah sent off the captives, bound in chain,To Madain, with the spoil of Roman pain.
D13.13.63
He then went round the city and beheldA countryside where moonlike splendors welled.
D13.13.64
The gardens, groves, and waters made age new,Restoring youth and freshness to the view.
D13.13.65
The king addressed his nobles in delight:“Is this young spring, or Antakiya’s sight?
D13.13.66
Whoever has not seen glad Paradise—Its musk-rich soil and gold bricks beyond price;
D13.13.67
Its trees are rubies, rosewater its streams;Its earth is heaven; its sky with sunlight gleams—
D13.13.68
Should look upon this land, where blessings flow;May all the lands of Rum in plenty grow.”