Javier Alvarez-Mon. “A Highland Elamite Archer from Kūl-e Farah IV, CI:4”

Situated in areas of Elam that are still quite poorly known to us, the open-air Zagros highland sanctuaries carved with monumental rock reliefs offer a vital body of evidence to aid our appreciation of Elam’s dual highland-lowland culture, even if we do not know who was responsible for commissioning most of them. In general, they are too poorly preserved to enable definition of the techniques used in their manufacture, making them difficult to comprehend within the overall artistic production..