Anquetil gives a drawing of it in his Zend-Avesia.

Strabo speaks of the Paiti-dhana p.733.He says the ends of the cloth used as a covering for the head hung down over the mouth.] The victims had been slaughtered in a meadow near the river, the flesh cut into pieces, sprinkled with salt, and laid out on tender grasses, sprouts of clover, myrtle-blossoms, and laurel-leaves, that the beautiful daughter of Ormuzd, the patient, sacred Earth, might not be touched by aught that was dead or bleeding.
Oropastes, the chief Destur,--[Priest]--now drew near the fire and cast fresh butter into it.

The flames leapt up into the air and all the Persians fell on their knees and hid their faces, in the belief that the fire was now ascending to their great god and father.

The Magian then took a mortar, laid some leaves and stalks of the sacred herb Haomas within it, crushed them and poured the ruddy juice, the food of the gods, into the flames.
After this he raised his hands to heaven, and, while the other priests continually fed the flames into a wilder blaze by casting in fresh butter, sang a long prayer out of the sacred books.

In this prayer the blessing of the gods was called down on everything pure and good, but principally on the king and his entire realm.