Ctesiphon: Ruins of great palace, audience hall to right
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Godard, Andre
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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It was flanked by a wall similar to the one on the left until it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1880. Iwan was 100 ft. high, 140 ft. long. Thought to be the work of Shapur I (241-272). Ctesiphon was Parthian royal city chosen by Ardashir as capital of Sassanian empire (see Roman Ghirshman, Iran: Parthians and Sassanians, translated by Stuart Gilbert and James Emmons, London, Thames & Hudson, 1962, p. 136)
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1965
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