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Title/Caption	Apadana
Variant Title/Caption	Royal Audience Hall
Larger Work/Entity	Palace complex at Persepolis
Site/Creative Center	Persepolis [Takht-e Jamshid] (Iran)
Date of Work	ca. 521-465 BCE
Description of View	[Stairway to Apadana.] Center detail from double stairway leading up to Audience Hall with marching figures in low relief.
Notes	By far the largest and most magnificent building is the Apadana, begun by Darius and finished by Xerxes, that was used mainly for great receptions by the kings. Thirteen of its seventy-two columns still stand on the enormous platform to which two monumental stairways, on the north and on the east, give access. They are adorned with rows of beautifully executed reliefs showing scenes from the New Year's festival and processions of representatives of twenty-three subject nations of the Achaemenid Empire, with court notables and Persians and Medes, followed by soldiers and guards, their horses, and royal chariots.
Technique/Process	architectural sculpture, relief sculpture, architecture
Materials/Medium	stone
Period	Ancient Persian
Century	6th - 5th Century BCE
Style of Work	Achaemenid Persian
Subject	Sculpture, Mesopotamian Sculpture, Persian Architecture, Persian Sculpture, 6th Century BCE Archaeological sites Takht-e Jamshid (deserted settlement) Royal palaces Presence chambers Stairs
Publisher	Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation
Publisher.Location	Freeport, Maine (United States)
Credit Line	(C) Dr. Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft
Reference Number	Saskia Jia-2020
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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