VI. Achaemenid Persia
The Ancient East between Tradition and Domination
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
Griffin, Glazed bricks
panel from the Palace
(Apadana) of Darius, Susa,
west courtyard of the
palace, 522-486 BCE
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Depiction of guards from the Apadana
/ Berlin, Pergamon Museum Vorderasiatisches
Museum
Gold with horned lion-griffins, part of a belt
ornament (?), 13.5 × 9.8 × 1.2 cm, 0.1 kg, c. 6th–4th
century BCE / Metropolitan Museum, New York
Vessel / Rhyton, 17 × 13.8 × 9.2 cm, 1 kg, c. 5th century BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Gold armlet, from the Oxus Treasure /
British Museum, London
enamel
Gold dress ornaments, 6th-5th century BCE
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Votive plaques
Zoroastrianism
“Barsom”
Tachara Palace, 5th century BCE
Fragment of a Wall Decoration from the Palace of
Xerxes, gray limestone, 53x43,6 cm, 486-465 BCE,
Persepolis / Cleveland Art Musem
Column from the Apadana of
Susa / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Apadana, Persepolis
Scythian gold belt buckle made of gold, found in
Siberia, 5th-4th century BCE
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Tomb of Cyrus I, 559–529 BCE
Necropolis of Naqsh-e Rostam, with the tombs of Darius
II, Artaxerxes I, Darius I, Xerxes I, in use ca. 550–330 BCE
Darius I
Tomb of Xerxes I at Naqsh-e Rostam,
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, the “Kaaba of
Zoroaster”, fire temple (?), mausoleum (?),
treasury (?), sixth century CE
Sasanian relief with the triumph of Shapur I over the Roman
emperors Valerian and Philip the Arab, ca. 241–272 CE
300, directed by Zack Snyder (2007)
Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BCE
Greek hoplite and Persian warrior fighting on
ancient kylix (cup), 5th c. BCE / National
Archaeological Museum of Athens
Persian cylinder seal and modern impression, c. 550–486 BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Alexander Mosaic (Battle of Issus), House of the Faun, Pompeii, c. 100 BCE / Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples