STONE FRIEZE FROM APADANA RELIEF, CIRCA 500 BC PERSEPOLIS, ANCIENT PERSIA / IRAN
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STONE FRIEZE FROM APADANA RELIEF, CIRCA 500 BC PERSEPOLIS, ANCIENT PERSIA / IRAN:
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- THIS IS A VICTORIAN CASTING OF THE APADANA RELIEF WHICH OUR EXPERTS BELIEVE WAS CAST AROUND 1854.
- WHAT MAKES THIS FRIEZE UNIQUE IS THE FACT THAT THE ORIGINAL SECTION OF RELIEF IT WAS CAST FROM HAS BEEN LOST.
- AS SUCH IT IS UNIQUE.
- EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE, LARGE AND HEAVY PIECE.
- WE CAN SHIP TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (BUT DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE WILL BE COSTLY).
- THIS ANTIQUE IS ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT. IT ATTRACTS HUGE INTEREST AND IS A CONSTANT TALKING POINT.
- THE FIRST BAS-RELIEFS FROM PERSEPOLIS WENT ON PUBLIC DISPLAY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN LONDON IN 1818 (A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE SCULPTURES TAKEN FROM THE PARTHENON IN ATHENS, GREECE WENT ON DISPLAY).
- FOLLOWING HUGE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE APADANA RELIEFS, A SUCCESSION OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS TO IRAN / PERSIA CAUSED A MASS EXODUS OF ANTIQUE STONE FIGURES AND ARTIFACTS WHICH FOUND HOMES IN MUSEUMS ACROSS EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA.
- PROVENANCE IS BELIEVED TO BE FROM OLD MUSEUM INVENTORY (AMERICAN CIVIL WAR?) : SEE CLOSE UP PHOTOS OF VICTORIAN MUSEUM INVENTORY NUMBER.
- REMOVAL OF ONE OF THE REAR WOODEN PANELS FROM THE DISPLAY CASE, ENCASING THE FRIEZE REVEALED AN AMAZING FIND: A NEWSPAPER FROM CIVIL WAR ERA AMERICA.
- AT SOME POINT THE FRIEZE WAS DROPPED, REVEALING HAND TURNED VICTORIAN SCREWS THAT HELD THE STONE IN PLACE.
- RELIEF (INCLUDING DISPLAY CASE) MEASURES 38 INCHES WIDE BY 23 INCHES TALL BY 4 1/2 INCHES DEEP.
- METRIC DIMENSIONS: 96 CENTIMETERS WIDE BY 58 CENTIMETERS HIGH BY 11 CENTIMETERS DEEP.
- WEIGHT APPROXIMATELY 149 POUNDS / 67 KILOS.
STONE FRIEZE FROM APADANA RELIEF, CIRCA 500 BC PERSEPOLIS, ANCIENT PERSIA / IRAN:
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