Persian Sphinxes Wood Print

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Persian Sphinxes. Palace of Darius, Susa, Persian Empire. C. 500 BC.

Detail of the glazed brick sphinxes in one of the friezes of the palace of Darius I in Susa. The relief of enameled, polychrome bricks shows a pair of winged lions with bearded human heads sit facing each other, their heads turned backward, on a blue-green ground. The winged disc of Ahura-Mazda hovers above them. This complex traditional iconography is rendered in a pure Persian style.

Discovered in the north-east corner of the central court of Darius's palace in Susa, unlike friezes of archers or lions, this scene represented a single element in a series of individual panels. It was not set into the wall itself, but rather was applied to some projecting feature (perhaps a pilaster of the same width), and placed in a prominent position, such as in a niche or above a door.

The arrangement of the two scenes facing each other and their regular edge indicate that these were free-standing panel...

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