Javier Álvarez-Mon. “Platforms of Exaltation. Elamite Sculptural Reliefs from the Highlands: Kūl-e Farah VI”

Rather poorly preserved and carved on a boulder about 300 metres outside the ravine enclosing the five better-known Neo-Elamite reliefs at the open-air sanctuary of Kul-e Farah near Izeh, Kul-e Farah VI (KF VI) has tended to be overlooked or dismissed as an inferior quality production. In this article the author offers the first comprehensive description of the iconography of KF VI—a large-scale figure on a platform supported by platform bearers, followed by registers of worshippers of variou..