Timeline Of Artistic Iranian Cultural Expression

  • Period: 6000 BCE to 5000 BCE

    Storage Jar Decorated With Mountain Goats

    The earliest known clay vessels and modeled figurines were made in Western Iran and started being produced at this time.
  • Storage Jar Decorated With Mountain Goats
    5000 BCE

    Storage Jar Decorated With Mountain Goats

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 2700 BCE

    Kneeling Bull Holding A Spouted Vessel

    Delicate handmade, painted vessels were buried within graves. The variety of these sculptures help show the presence of many artisans.
    The small sculptures are of the highest quality. They are usually of animals or demonic images that are like humans.
  • Kneeling Bull Holding A Spouted Vessel
    2700 BCE

    Kneeling Bull Holding A Spouted Vessel

  • Period: 2350 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Head Of A Ruler

    Chlorite vessels of the "Intercultural Style" are used for decoration. The surfaces will be covered with patterns and designs. These sculptures are usually representations of animals, and humans. They were made in Southern Iran and the greater Gulf region.
  • Head Of A Ruler
    2000 BCE

    Head Of A Ruler

  • Period: 1340 BCE to 1300 BCE

    Helmet With Divine Figures Beneath A Bird With Outstretched Wings

    The ziggurat's facade is covered with glazed blue and green terracotta, and the inside of this piece of work is covered with ivory glass mosaics. Statues and art were made of copper over bronze to represent the wife of the king; Napir Asu
  • Helmet With Divine Figures Beneath A Bird With Outstretched Wings
    1300 BCE

    Helmet With Divine Figures Beneath A Bird With Outstretched Wings

  • 14th Century BC Artwork
    1000 BCE

    14th Century BC Artwork

  • Spouted Jar And Stand
    900 BCE

    Spouted Jar And Stand

    Iron Age II, Hasanlu cemetery
    northwestern Iran, Ceramic. Used in the kitchen.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 425 BCE

    Relief : Two Servants Bearing Food And Drink

    Achaemenid period, reign of Artaxerxes III
    Persepolis, Iran
    Foreign craftsmen helped decorate and craft the walls or Persepolis with art and stories such as this sculpture on the wall
  • Relief: Two Servants Bearing Food and Drink,
    425 BCE

    Relief: Two Servants Bearing Food and Drink,

  • Belt/Harness Ornament With An Eagle And Its Prey
    53 BCE

    Belt/Harness Ornament With An Eagle And Its Prey

    Early ideas of the belt buckle for the Iranian Culture.
    1st century b.c.–1st century a.d.
    Parthian period, Iran,
    Gold inlaid with turquoise