SJSU Art History and Visual Culture
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Persian Works:

 

Persian
Bell-Shaped Rhyton
c. 500-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Persian
Bowl with a Lion Attacking a Deer
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

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Bowl with Appliques of Composite Animals and Foliage
c. 600-500 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

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Bowl with Garnet Inlays
c. 150-1 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

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Bowl with Hexagonal Facets
c. 400-650, Toledo Museum of Art

 

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Bowl with Male Figure and Grapevine Scrolls
c. 500-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Dish with a Lion Attacking a Bull
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

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Dish with an Eagle carrying a Woman
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

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Dish with Two Warriors Riding a Chariot and Two Zebu (Khusraw's Dial)
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

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Ewer with Dancing Female Figures within Arcades
c. 500-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Fragmentary Face from a Statuette
c. 500 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

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Fragments of a Wall Hanging with Figures in Persian Dress
c. 550-650, Benaki Museum, Athens

 

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Griffin Rhyton
c. 500-330 BCE, British Museum, London

   

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Griffin-Headed Armlet from the Oxus Treasure
c. 550-400 BCE, British Museum, London

   

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Head of a Horned Animal
c. 600-400 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

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Head of a King
c. 310-379, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Horse Harness Ornament or Shield-Boss
c. 500-300 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Horse Rhyton
c. 1000-700 BCE, Teheran Museum

 

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Impressions of Persian Cylinder Seals
c. 522-400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Inlaid Vase
c. 2500 BCE, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Kerman

 

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Model Chariot from the Oxus Treasure
c. 400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Model Chariot from the Oxus Treasure
c. 500-300 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Ornament in the form of a Lion-Griffin, from the Oxus Treasure
c. 400-200 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Pair of Bracelets with Winged Caprid Terminals
c. 600-300 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Persian
Palace at Ctesiphon
3rd Century, Ctesiphon

   

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Panel of Four Tiles with Interlaced Vine Scrolls and Acorns
c. 500-600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Persian
Parthian and Sasanian Empires
99 BCE - 399 CE

 

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Persepolis
begun c. 515 BCE, Persepolis

                         

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Persian Empire in the Time of Darius
c. 522-486 BCE

 

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Plaque with Chased Decoration Showing a Horse Facing Left
c. 500-300 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Plate with a King Hunting Lions
c. 500-700, British Museum, London

 

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Plate with a King Hunting Rams
c. 459-531, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Plate with the Triumph of Dionysos
c. 250, British Museum, London

   

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Plate with Youths and Winged Horses
c. 400-600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Relief Fragment showing a Charioteer
c. 600-400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Relief Fragment with an Archer
c. 500-480 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

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Relief of a Spear Carrier
c. 521 - 486 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

   

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Rhyton with a Horse Protome
c. 550-450 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

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Rhyton with a Stag Protome
c. 600-400 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

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Rhyton with Calf Protome
c. 500-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

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Rhyton with forepart of a winged lion
c. 500-400 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Rhyton with Wild Cat Protome
c. 100-1 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

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Sasanian Empire
c. 224-651

 

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Section from the Archer Frieze of Darius I
c. 521-486 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

     

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Spout in the form of a Man's Head
c. 1-200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Persian
Standing Man
c. 100-200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Taq-I Bustan (The Arch of the Garden)
c. 224-650, Kermanshah

             

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Textile Fragment with Ducks in Roundels
c. 500-650, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

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Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-i-Rustem
c. 485 BCE, Naqsh-i-Rustem

 

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Vase with Dancing Female Figures
c. 500-600, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

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Vase with Medallions enclosing Birds
c. 500-650, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

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Vessel with Flaring Neck
c. 450-350 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

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Winged Ibex Handle
c. 350 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Worshipper, from the Oxus Treasure
c. 500-300 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Zoroastrian Fire Temple
c. 300-500, Jar