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Achaemenid architecture includes all architectural achievements of the Achaemenid Persians manifesting in construction of spectacular cities used for governance and inhabitation (Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana), temples made for worship and social gatherings (such as Zoroastrian temples), and mausoleums erected in honor of fallen kings (such as the burial tomb of Cyrus the Great).
Achaemenid art includes frieze reliefs, metalwork such as the Oxus Treasure, decoration of palaces, glazed brick masonry, fine craftsmanship (masonry, carpentry, etc.), and gardening. Although the Persians took artists, with their styles and techniques, from all corners of their empire, they did not just produce a combination of styles, but a ...
Achaemenid objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including a bas relief from Persepolis Head of an archer of the royal guard from Hadish palace, Sackler Museum - Harvard University Fragment of wall decoration from Hadish palace, Cleveland Museum of Art
One of a pair of armlets from the Oxus Treasure, which has lost its inlays of precious stones or enamel Gold model chariot. The Oxus treasure (Persian: گنجینه آمودریا) is a collection of about 180 surviving pieces of metalwork in gold and silver, most relatively small, and around 200 coins, from the Achaemenid Persian period which were found by the Oxus river about 1877–1880. [1]
Two Achaemenid cuneiform inscriptions, kept at the Ecbatana Museum. Ecbatana Museum was opened in 1994. The museum is open all days of the week except Monday evening. [52] Located in the east of Ecbatana hill, the museum building used to be a nursery school, [53] but it has been put
The Nereid Monument is a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in Lycia (then part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire), close to present-day Fethiye in Mugla Province, Turkey.It took the form of a Greek temple on top of a base decorated with sculpted friezes, and is thought to have been built in the early fourth century BC (circa 390 BC) as a tomb for Arbinas (Lycian: Erbbina, or Erbinna), the Xanthian ...
Her first major publication on the Achaemenid empire was the 1979 volume The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire (Acta Iranica 9); [2] this was a revised and expanded version of her doctoral thesis. [3] In 1985, she was awarded a Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. [4]
Achaemenid art includes frieze reliefs, metalwork, decoration of palaces, glazed brick masonry, fine craftsmanship (masonry, carpentry, etc.), and gardening. Most survivals of court art are monumental sculptures, above all the reliefs , double animal-headed Persian column capitals and other sculptures of Persepolis .