Persepolis: Detail of pillar of a door of the Hall of a Hundred Columns
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| Collections | Arthur Llewellyn Basham |
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| Title: | Persepolis: Detail of pillar of a door of the Hall of a Hundred Columns |
| Author(s): | Godard, Andre Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham |
| Keywords: | Achaemenian;architecture;sculpture;book scan |
| 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) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/208873 |
| Other Identifiers: | ANUA 682-4221 |
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