with the eight sassanians reliefs, naghsh-e rustam in marvdasht is a prominent complex safeguarding a complete collection of the sassanian period. seven of these reliefs have been repeatedly the subject of investigations thanks to their relatively better conditions. the fifth relief, however, has not yet been studied due to their damaged status. it depicts the full-face portrait of a sassanid k...

decorative arts have got a special place in iranian architecture traditionally. these types of arts are the symbol of nation's ethnics and indigenous features and also express the artist's feelings of those times. stucco is one type of the decorative arts that has decorated many buildings -especially palaces-that belong to the pre-islamic period and also mosques that built in the isla...

Dans son article, Kristin Kleber presente un apercu du comportement des rois perses envers les traditions religieuses babyloniennes et representants culte. Elle compare la politique perse avec celle neo-assyriens neo-babyloniens. Le systeme de croyance permettait d’inclure nouvelles divinites dans le pantheon religieux cultes locaux s’expliquait surtout par raisons politiques. Ils appliquaient ...