Pictures and Photos
Tomb of Xerxes
IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam. Tomb of Xerxes (Tomb II), General ViewXerxes and Fire Altar
IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam. Tomb of Xerxes, King, God, and Fire Altar in the Top Register.Tomb of Artaxerxes I
IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam - Tomb of Artaxerxes I. Top Register, Showing King, God, Fire Altar, and Throne Bearers, with Weapon Bearers and Guard on Left Frame.Tomb of Darius II (Tomb IV)
IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam - Tomb of Darius II (Tomb IV). General View with the Tower in the Left Foreground.IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam Environs - Vaulted Tomb
IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam Environs - Vaulted Tomb Hewn into a Boulder.Pasargadae - Close-up View of the Tomb of Cyrus
IRAN: Pasargadae - Close-up View of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great.IRAN: Persepolis: Contents of the Treasury
and Other DiscoveriesSculpture of a Persian's Head
IRAN: Persepolis - Baked Clay Sculpture of a Persian's Head Front View, Found Near NE Corner of the Terrace.Sculpture of a Persian's Head (Side View)
IRAN: Persepolis - Baked Clay Sculpture of a Persian's Head. Side View, Found Near NE Corner of the Terrace.Bronze Pedestal of Three Lions
IRAN: Persepolis - Detail of the Bronze Pedestal of Three Lions, Found in the Treasury.Two Bronze Horses
IRAN: Persepolis - Two Bronze Horses from the Portico of the Throne Hall.Persepolis - Bronze Pedestal of Three Lions
IRAN: Persepolis - Bronze Pedestal of Three Lions, Found in the TreasuryRam Statuette - Headed God Harsaphes
IRAN: Persepolis - Bronze Patinated Statuette of the Upper Part of the Ram. Headed God Harsaphes, Front View, Found Near the Entrance of the Treasury.KA'BAH-I-ZARDUSHT
PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN: KA'BAH-I-ZARDUSHTAncient Persian Inscription
IRAN: Naqsh-i-Rustam Close-up of an ancient Persian Inscription on the Rock Panel between the Tombs of Darius I and XerxesIRAN: Persepolis - Tomb of Artaxerxes II
Upper Register, Showing Throne Bearers.Iran Double Bull Capital
Double bull capital from Persepolis, as restored by sculptor Donato Bastiani. This column capital once supported a roof beam in the Apadana of Darius I (521-486 B.C.).Beaker With Geometric Designs And Birds
Archaeologists working in Iran at the site of Tepe Giyan during 1931 and 1932 excavated 119 burials dating to five successive periods. Among the vessels characteristic of the Giyan II Period were ones whose decoration combined geometric patterns with representations of small suns and birds. This beaker, acquired by the archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld prior to the 1930's excavations, thus can be dated by its decoration to Giyan II.Painted Jar
This handmade vessel has a lozenge pattern on the shoulder painted in black on a plum-red burnished surface. This type of ware and decoration are characteristic of a phase in the development of Iranian civilization on the central plateau that is often called "Cheshmeh Ali" after a site of that name near Tehran.COLOSSAL BULL HEAD
Carved in the court style typical of the Achaemenid Empire, this highly polished stone head originally belonged to one of two guardian bulls flanking the portico of the hundred-columned Throne Hall at Persepolis. The heads of the bulls projected in the round and the bodies were carved in relief on the sidewalls of the porch; the ears and horns had been added separately. The use of pairs of guardian figures such as these to protect important buildings was a common architectural feature in the ancient Near East.FRIEZE OF STRIDING LIONS
An Achaemenid artisan carved this piece of stone to represent part of a cloth canopy that was decorated with woven or appliquéd figures of rosettes and striding lions. Remnants of crenellations on the top of the block indicate that it belonged to the uppermost row of stones. The fringe along the lower edge, representing knotted cords ending in tassels, was partly chipped away in ancient times, perhaps before the stone was reused in the balustrade of a small stairway east of Darius' residential palace.FOUNDATION SLAB OF XERXES
This stone tablet inscribed with Babylonian cuneiform characters lists the nations under Persian rule shortly after the uprisings that occurred when Xerxes came to the throne. Although the tablet was intended as a foundation deposit to be placed beneath a corner of one of Xerxes' buildings, it apparently was never used. It was found, along with other tablets bearing the same text in Old Persian and Elamite, employed as the facing of a mud brick bench in the garrison quarters at Persepolis.KRATER WITH IBEXES
The geographical term "Susiana," referring to the area ruled in the historical period by the city of Susa, is also applied to the prehistoric cultures of lowland southwestern Iran. Representational designs such as the stylized wild goats with long sweeping horns painted beneath the rim of this krater are characteristic for an advanced stage of the Susiana sequence.PAINTED BOWL
Many of the pottery vessels from the site of Tall-i-Bakun in the plain of Persepolis show a highly sophisticated use of negative designs in conjunction with more usual painted patterns. On this bowl, two patterns alternate in rhythmic sequence. One is a painted design of anthropomorphic inspiration with a "head" flanked by upraised "arms" facing both the rim and base of the bowl. The other pattern, which is given in negative by the buff surface of the vessel, consists of a cross and two lozenges.DISC-HEADED PIN
Large numbers of decorated disc-headed pins were found in the sanctuary at Surkh Dum-i-Luri. They may have been votive offerings to a fertility goddess or, on analogy with a modern ethnographic parallel, deposits verifying wedding contracts among nomadic peoples moving through the area. The decoration of this example, with an eight-petaled central rosette and surrounding borders of smaller rosettes and punctate patterns, is typical. The tiny incised lion's (?) head faces away from the shaft because the pins were worn with the head hanging down and the shaft pointing up.Thanks: Publix weekly ad, Kroger weekly ad, aldi ad, Walgreens weekly ad
