Achaemenid
Stairway Figure from the Palace of Darius I
5th Century BCE
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Achaemenid
Stairway Figure from the Palace of Darius I
5th Century BCE
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
Walters Art Gallery, "Masterpieces of Iranian Art," February 20-April 2, 1972.
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.
