Item PY1

Dimensions: 48 x 24 cm.  This vintage print has some slight wear around the edges of the border due to age; this does not affect the actual image and will not be visible once the print is properly matted and framed.

The caption on the bottom of the print reads as follows:

Head of a Prince in lapis lazuli (5th - 14th cent. BC) as seen in the Tehran Archaeological Museum.

Adorned with the curtis characteristic of Achaemenian royalty, the head of a youth resembles a crown that resembles the battlements at the fabled city of Persepolis, where the sculpture was found. Though less than three inches high, the head projects the stolid self-assurance of all imperial Persian portraits. It is made of Egyptian blue, a glasslike material.