Achaemenid Gallery

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historyarchaeologyartefacts:Limestone Cypriot statue from the Achaemenid era, showing a characterist
Cylinder seal with Persian hunter and horse, carved in sard. Persian Achaemenid period, 550-331 BCE
historyarchaeologyartefacts:Achaemenid golden ornamental roundel from the reign of Artaxerxes II, fe
“Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Tripylon (Council Hall): View of the Three Stone Doorways of the M
historyfilia:Achaemenid gold medallionFrom Iran, Achaemenid period (550-330 BC)
Column capital in the shape of a man-bull hybrid, from the palace of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE) at Pe
treasures-and-beauty:Iran, Achaemenid ornamental Lapis lazuli plate, ca 500-400 BC.
Caria, Achaemenid Period. Circa 341-334 BC. Silver tetradrachm.
boriken80:Bracelet.Iran, Achaemenid Period, 550-330 B.C.
myancientworld:Achaemenid golden bowl with lion imagery.The Achaemenid Empire, also known as the Fir
Gold griffin-headed armlet from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC.Currently
treasures-and-beauty:Iran, Achaemenid ornamental Lapis lazuli plate, ca 500-400 BC.
Though Xerxes did not found the Achaemenid Persian Empire, he ruled it at its greatest size, and mad
Inscription of Darius I the Great at Elvand
Persian archers, thought to be from the elite immortals unit ,bas-relief from the palace of Darius I
Artaxerxes Receiving the Head of Cyrus (and detail) by Peregrino da CesenaItalian, c. 1490/1510niell
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