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Persepolis: Detail of pillar of a door of the Hall of a Hundred Columns

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Authors

Godard, Andre
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Abstract

Description

Sovereign with servant carrying flywhisk, under fringed baldaquin decorated with three bands of rosettes between which there is a procession of lions and bulls. "Furuhar" winged symbol above. Colours of latter would have been turquoise blue, light scarlet red, gold or orange yellow, deep purple, lapis-lazuli blue and touches of emerald green, all on black background (Edith Porada, Ancient Iran: The Art of Pre-Islamic Times, London, Methuen, 1965, p. 154)

Keywords

Achaemenian, architecture, sculpture, book scan

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/208873

Collections

Basham Photographs

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Type

Image

Archives Series

Date created

1965

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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