Art & Iconography (2)

A catalogue view: every article filed as artwork. For the encyclopaedia arranged by subject, see the themes.

• ArtworkThe Apadana Reliefs

  The Apadana reliefs are the sculptured façades of the two great stairways of the Apadana, the audience hall of Persepolis: files of Persian and Median guards, courtiers and royal grooms on one wing and, on the other, twenty-three delegations of subject peoples, each in the costume of its land,…

• ArtworkThe Winged Symbol (the figure in the winged ring)

  The winged symbol is the ring or disc with outspread wings, most often enclosing a robed male figure, that hovers above the Great King at Behistun, on the reliefs of Persepolis and over the royal tombs at Naqsh-e Rostam. It is the most conspicuous religious image of Achaemenid kingship and the…