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DescriptionImage from page 737 of "Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map" (1906) (14802222133).jpg |
Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: MuDKKiN IJAS-Kf.LIEF KEPLAClNd THE SCULPTJKE SHdWH ABOVE AN OBLITERATED SASANIAN SCULPTURE 439 represented a mounted warrior charging at full speed with acouched spear against an antagonist, the head of whose horsewas roughly indicated in outline on the stone. The figurewith the spear was undoubtedly a Sasanian king, as was shownby the balloon-like head-gear and other typical accoutrementsof Sasanian times, but we no longer know which particularmonarch may have been intended. Ker Porter thought itprobable that Ardashir, the founder of the dynasty, was thehero, and that the combat was against the last of the Parthians;Sir William Ouseley, on the contrary, was inclined rather toattribute it to Ardashirs son Shahpur, but both scholars were ofthe opinion that the entire sculpture had never been finished.We can but regret that it is no longer possible to solve such aproblem, and we must deplore the destructive zeal of Path AliShah, which has robbed us of a monument of antiquity. The sculpt
فارسی: نقش برجسته قاجاری «سرسره ری» در نزدیکی کوه طبرک- احتمالا در سال 31-1830 م ساخته شده باشد. متأسفانه این نقش برجسته که فتحعلی شاه را در حال شکار شیر نشان میدهد در اوایل دهه ۱۹۷۰ به طورکلی نابود شد (لوفت، 2001)- |
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