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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. -
5000 BCE
Storage Jar Decorated With Mountain Goats
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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. -
2700 BCE
Kneeling Bull Holding A Spouted Vessel
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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. -
2000 BCE
Head Of A Ruler
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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 -
1300 BCE
Helmet With Divine Figures Beneath A Bird With Outstretched Wings
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1000 BCE
14th Century BC Artwork
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900 BCE
Spouted Jar And Stand
Iron Age II, Hasanlu cemetery
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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 -
425 BCE
Relief: Two Servants Bearing Food and Drink,
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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
