Museums

The carousel below showcases artifacts from diverse phases of Ancient Iran now held in a variety of museums across Europe and the Middle East. Objects include cuneiform tablets, Old Persian inscriptions, Achaemenid goldwork, Parthian figurines, Palmyran reliefs, and Sasanian seals, jewelry, swords, and silver vessels.

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  Silver vessel with peacock, ca. 3rd-7th century CE, Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran
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  Miniature gold chariot, ca. 5th-4th century BC, British Museum
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  Inscribed column base fragments, ca. 400 BC, British Museum
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  Griffin head on gilded silver rhyton, ca. 5th century BC, British Museum
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  Silver votive statue of man holding barsom, ca. 5th-4th century BC, British Museum
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  Parthian horse archer, ca. 1st-3rd century CE, British Museum
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  Parthian-era Akkadian tablet documenting passing of Halley's Comet, ca. 2nd century BC, British Museum
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  Sasanian seals and modern impressions, ca. 3rd century CE, British Museum
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  Iron swords with gold and silver hilts and scabbards, ca. 6th-7th century CE, British Museum
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  Gilded silver winged ibex handle, Achaemenid period, Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Golden face, detail of ibex handle, Achaemenid period (ca. 6th-4th century BC), Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Greco-Bactrian statuette of noblewoman, Seleucid period (ca. 3rd-1st century BC), Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Bactrian wrestling scene, Seleucid period (ca. 3rd-1st century BC), Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Divine triad, Aglibol, Baalshemeen, Malakbel, Palmyra, 1st century CE, Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Man with horse, Arsacid period (ca. 250 BC-226 CE), Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Alabaster statuette of reclining woman, Arsacid period (ca. 3rd century BC), Louvre Museum, Paris
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  Stone stele showing divine audience scene from Susa, Middle Elamite period (ca. 12th century BC), Louvre
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  Merchants with camel, Arsacid period (ca. 3rd century BC - 3rd century CE), Palmyra Museum
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  Old Persian foundation tablet, reign of Xerxes (r. 486-465 BC), Persepolis Museum
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  Statue of kneeling pharaoh, Achaemenid period, Persepolis Museum
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  Stone mortar and pestle, Achaemenid period, Persepolis Museum
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  Bust of Sasanian nobleman, Sasanian period, Tehran National Museum
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  Mosaic from Bishapur, mid-3rd century, Tehran National Museum
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  Glass bead necklace from Susa, Sasanian period, Tehran National Museum