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Gold daric of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, showing a king or hero with bow and spear.  Artist unkn

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Applique in the shape of a lion’s head, from Achaemenid Persia.  Artist unknown; 6th to 4th cent. BC

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Relief fragment from the Achaemenid Persian capital of Persepolis.  Artist unknown; ca. 518-465 BCE.

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Granite sculpture of an ancient Egyptian man in Achaemenid Persian dress.  Artist unknown; ca. 343-3

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Column capital in the shape of a man-bull hybrid, from the palace of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE) at Pe

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Bronze kohl tube from western Iran, dating to the Achaemenid period (ca. 800-330 BCE).  Now in the L

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Underside of a green jasper scarab-amulet, depicting a ruler holding a staff before lotus plants, wi

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A servant in Median dress brings an offering to the New Year’s festival banquet at the Achaemenid ro

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aleyma:Achaemenid Persia, Gold model chariot from the Oxus Treasure, 5-4th century BC (source).

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More from the Met.

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