Item PY13

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:

Detail of Darius I's Triumph Bisutun, Kermanshah

Young Darius was only 29 when this first royal protrait was carved at Bisutun. The full stiff beard, the thicket of ringlets at the nape of the neck and the flat curls pressed to the forehead are stylistic elements based on renderings of Assyrian sovereigns whose reigns preceded Darius.