Frieze / fragment

Description

Fragment of a limestone relief showing one of the rear legs of a bull and its tail, in combat with a lion attacking its hindquarters : Persian, Persepolis, from the palace of Artaxerxes I, c.460 BC

Museum reference

A.1887.566

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Frieze / fragment

Production information

Persepolis, Iran, West Asia

Style / Culture

Persian

Materials

Limestone

Physical description

Limestone; sculptured

Associations

Darius

References

Tilia, A.B. Studies and Restorations at Persepolis and other sites of Fars (Rome, IsMEO Reports and Memoirs XVI, 1972), pp. 271 (fragment 77 and notes 3 and 4), 290, 298, 412, Figs. 11, 63, pl. CLII

Roaf, Michael. 1987. 'Checklist of Persepolis Reliefs Not at the Site', Iran Vol. 25, pp. 155-158, specifically p. 157

Nagel, Alexander. 2010. Colors, Gilding and Painted Motifs in Persepolis: Approaching the Polychromy of Achaemenid Persian Architectural Sculpture, c. 520-330 BCE, PhD Uni Mich thesis, Appendix 1, p. 243