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Bisutun (Behistun): Rock relief of Darius

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Authors

Ghirshman, Roman
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Abstract

Description

This is a detail from the 18 foot high rock relief, high up on a cliff face overlooking the road leading from the Iranian plateau to the Mesopotamian plain. The relief portrays Darius in the traditional posture of victor with his foot on the fallen enemy, Gaumata the Magian. The tri-lingual inscription (in Old Persian, Akkadian and Elamite) which accompanies it played a part in the story of the decipherment of cuneiform when Rawlinson had himself suspended from the cliff face so that he could copy it.

Keywords

Achaemenian, sculpture, stone, book scan

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/208879

Collections

Basham Photographs

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Type

Image

Archives Series

Date created

1962

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License Rights

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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