Achaemenid Art

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Applique in the shape of a lion’s head, from Achaemenid Persia.  Artist unknown; 6th to 4th cent. BC

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Relief fragment from the Achaemenid Persian capital of Persepolis.  Artist unknown; ca. 518-465 BCE.

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Column capital in the shape of a man-bull hybrid, from the palace of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE) at Pe

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Bronze kohl tube from western Iran, dating to the Achaemenid period (ca. 800-330 BCE).  Now in the L

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