Achaemenid
Stairway Figure from the Palace of Darius I
500-401
Scroll
Achaemenid
Stairway Figure from the Palace of Darius I
500-401
Physical Qualities
Limestone, 27 1/2 × 14 1/8 in. (69.9 × 35.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1935.30.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1935; Brummer Gallery, New York, by purchase from the Sassoon brothers; Sassoon brothers, Paris and Isfahan, by looting, 1929-1930
Asian Rotations 2024
R. J. McKinney, "An Ambassador from Persepolis," "Museum Quarterly," Baltimore Museum of Art, Vol. I, No. I, January 1936, pp. 2-3, ill. cover.
D. K. Hill, "The Courts of Jamshyd," "BMA News," Baltimore Museum of Art, June 1947, pp. 4-6, ill. p. 5.
Belle Boas, "They Came Bearing Gifts," "BMA News," Baltimore Museum of Art, December 1952-January 1953, ill. p. 11.
"A Picture Book," Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, ill. p. 86
"Object of the Week," Baltimore Sunpapers (Brown Section), Sunday, June 10, 1956, ill.
Micheal Roaf, "Sculptures and Sculptors at Persepolis," Iran, Vol. 21, (1983), pp. i-v+vii+ix-xi+1-164. Published by: British Institute of Persian Studies. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4299731.pdf
John Boardman, Persia and the West: an archaeological investigation of the genesis of Achaemenid art (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000).
John Curtis, Nigel Tallis, and Béatrice André-Salvini, Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005).
John Curtis, The world of Achaemenid Persia: history, art and society in Iran and the ancient Near East: proceedings of a conference at the British Museum, 29th September-1st October 2005 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010).
R. Schmitt and D. Stronach, “Apadana,” Encyclopædia Iranica, II/2, pp. 145-48
A. Shapur Shahbazi, “Persepolis,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, (2010)
Lindsay Allen, "'The Greatest Enterprise': Arthur Upham Pope, Persepolis and Achaemenid Antiquities," in Yuka Kadoi, ed., "Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art," (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 127-167, fig. 7.1 and fig. 7.2, p. 147.
John Boardman, Persia and the West: an archaeological investigation of the genesis of Achaemenid art (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000).
John Curtis, Nigel Tallis, and Béatrice André-Salvini, Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005).
John Curtis, The world of Achaemenid Persia: history, art and society in Iran and the ancient Near East: proceedings of a conference at the British Museum, 29th September-1st October 2005 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010).
R. Schmitt and D. Stronach, “Apadana,” Encyclopædia Iranica, II/2, pp. 145-48
A. Shapur Shahbazi, “Persepolis,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, (2010)
Lindsay Allen, "'The Greatest Enterprise': Arthur Upham Pope, Persepolis and Achaemenid Antiquities," in Yuka Kadoi, ed., "Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art," (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 127-167, fig. 7.1 and fig. 7.2, p. 147.
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