نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Reliefs of Apadana staircase including 23 delegation of Achaemenid Satrapies bearing tribute / gifts have for a long time been a subject for a veriety of interpretations. Till the mid 20th, it is highly believed that these figures illustrate tribute giving cult to the King in Nowrouz ceremony. But at the milstone of mid 20th due to some archaeological improvments the thesis about New Year celebration on Persepolis Platform had vastly been diluted. Recent evidences tended to a conformation that the intention of Achaemenid Art was a synchronic and timeless representation of the Royal ideaology and propaganda about the power, integnity, plurality and pax persica, instead of a diachronic and history based narration and illustration of events and occations. In this Paper, based on the Royal Inscriptions and specially those of DNb and Xpl on Naghsh-i Rostam, on the light of the classic texts, we argue that due to the synchronic model of Achaemenid textual and visual representation of historical occasions, the Apadana reliefs can simultaneously represent the redistribution of goods and gifts by the King. Hence, these reliefs can be interprated as an exhibition of the contents of royal treasury which we know had been regularly held through banquets and ceremonies.
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