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The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r.
This relief sculpture, in a sense depicts the eclectic inclusion of various art forms by the Achaemenids, yet their ability to create a new synthetic form that is uniquely Persian in style, and heavily dependent on the contributions of their subject states. After all, that is what distinguishes Achaemenid architecture from those of other kingdoms.
The Gökçeler relief is an Achaemenid-era tomb relief made in the Anatolian-Persian style. It was found in 2004 in the village of Gökçeler in Manisa Province of present-day Turkey . [ 1 ] The area of discovery corresponds to the northern part of the historic region of Lydia , at a time when it was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid ...
Naqsh-e Rostam (lit. ' mural of Rostam '; Persian: نقش رستم, Persian: [ˌnæɣʃeɾosˈtæm]) is an ancient archeological site and necropolis located about 13 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars province, Iran.
Persian art or Iranian art ... Achaemenid, 486–425 BC. Achaemenid art includes frieze reliefs, ... The earliest relief at the site is Elamite, ...
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 ...
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
Greco-Persian art, also Graeco-Persian art or Anatolian-Persian is an artistic synthesis between Ancient Greek art and Achaemenid Persian art, which can mainly be seen in the archaeological finds of ancient Anatolia in present-day Turkey. [1] It is part of the evidence of "the presence of Persians in the region". [1]