Standard of Cyrus the Great (Blue)

Författare/Upphovsman:

Sodacan

Kreditera:

Eget arbete, Based on a photograph hosted at iranica.com (it is our understanding that this photograph shows a reconstruction and not the actual artefact from Persepolis).

Kort länk:

https://www.sewiki.info/b/ae773

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

470 x 470 Pixel (88597 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

Reconstruction of the Achaemenid "falcon standard", based on the design of a tile of Egyptian blue frit found at Persepolis in 1948 (Īrān-Bāstān Museum, Tehran, no. 2436), with the addition of coloring.

The plaque shows Egyptian Horus, but in the Persian context was likely associated with the Avestan "glory-bringing bird", varəγna.

Literature: Sāmī, Persepolis, tr. R. Sharp, Shiraz, 1970, fig. facing p. 100; H. Luschey, "Ein königliches Emblem," AMI 5, 1972, pp. 257-60. A. Shapur Shahbazi, DERAFŠ, Encylopedia Iranica (1994).

• The standard is described by Xenophon in Cyropaedia (Book VII, C.1) as: "...and the word went down the lines, "Eyes on the standard and steady marching!". The standard was a golden eagle, with outspread wings, borne aloft on a long spear-shaft, and to this day such is the standard of the Persian king." (however here he is describing Artaxerxes II's standard at Cunaxa).

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