Add to ORKGLeft: Royal hero fighting monster, a recurring themerelief from doorway in palace of Darius (5th century BC)figure of king dominates reliefs at Persepolisthe rendering of the Achaemenid kings as conqueror of supernatural beasts and monsters ascribes to him feats which only gods and genii can perform in Assyrian art. Right: Door jamb of Tripylon, showing Darius on throne carried by the nations of the empireXerxes, the crown prince, stands behind hima baldachin and symbol of Ahura Mazda appear abovethis would have been coloured
There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surr...
Persian Art.; Ruins of the palace at Persepolis, near Murghab, north of Shiras, in Farsistan. Begun...
The Darius Painter, a contemporary of Alexander, designed the whole decoration of the Darius vase (N...
Iran - Persepolis, door of Hall of 100 Columns, Artaxerxes and servant with a fly-whisk (5th cent. B...
The seal impressions preserved on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets and the Persepolis Treasury T...
Iran - Persepolis, lion attacking bull stairway relief, Palace of Darius (6th-5th cent. B.C.)Colo
Sovereign with servant carrying flywhisk, under fringed baldaquin decorated with three bands of rose...
Relief carving on north jamb of south doorway in west wall: hero's combated with a horned lion-heade...
Ghirshman writes that this represents a four-winged genius, "dressed in the Elamite manner and weari...
Iran - Persepolis, Lion attacking bull stairway relief, Palace of Darius (6th-5th cent. [century] B....
Rock-cut tomb. Relief carving above entrance depicts the standing king facing a fire altar with a w...
Below it is Sassanian rock relief, of equestrian battle of Bahram II (?) see later. This is one of a...
Iran - Persepolis, Darius and bearer of sunshade, 6th - 5th cent. [century] B.C., Tripylon doorColor...
Cupules (?) and relief of the Hittite War-God at the King’s Gate, Hattusa as seen from the top. The ...
Sphinx from Persepolis. Possibly palace of Darius. XII.5.12. BMhttps://digitalcommons.acu.edu/fergus...
There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surr...
Persian Art.; Ruins of the palace at Persepolis, near Murghab, north of Shiras, in Farsistan. Begun...
The Darius Painter, a contemporary of Alexander, designed the whole decoration of the Darius vase (N...
Iran - Persepolis, door of Hall of 100 Columns, Artaxerxes and servant with a fly-whisk (5th cent. B...
The seal impressions preserved on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets and the Persepolis Treasury T...
Iran - Persepolis, lion attacking bull stairway relief, Palace of Darius (6th-5th cent. B.C.)Colo
Sovereign with servant carrying flywhisk, under fringed baldaquin decorated with three bands of rose...
Relief carving on north jamb of south doorway in west wall: hero's combated with a horned lion-heade...
Ghirshman writes that this represents a four-winged genius, "dressed in the Elamite manner and weari...
Iran - Persepolis, Lion attacking bull stairway relief, Palace of Darius (6th-5th cent. [century] B....
Rock-cut tomb. Relief carving above entrance depicts the standing king facing a fire altar with a w...
Below it is Sassanian rock relief, of equestrian battle of Bahram II (?) see later. This is one of a...
Iran - Persepolis, Darius and bearer of sunshade, 6th - 5th cent. [century] B.C., Tripylon doorColor...
Cupules (?) and relief of the Hittite War-God at the King’s Gate, Hattusa as seen from the top. The ...
Sphinx from Persepolis. Possibly palace of Darius. XII.5.12. BMhttps://digitalcommons.acu.edu/fergus...
There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surr...
Persian Art.; Ruins of the palace at Persepolis, near Murghab, north of Shiras, in Farsistan. Begun...
The Darius Painter, a contemporary of Alexander, designed the whole decoration of the Darius vase (N...