The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Fragment of a Wall Decoration from the Palace of Xerxes: "Guardsman" in Procession
486–465 BCE
Location: 102A Ancient Near East
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This relief was probably once brightly painted.Description
In 486 BC, Xerxes succeeded Darius I as king of Persia. His empire, then the world’s largest and most powerful, encompassed an area from Libya to western India and from Ethiopia to Afghanistan. This relief fragment of one of his guards probably comes from the west stairway of his enormous palace at Persepolis. As chronicled by Herodotus, the Greeks defeated Xerxes in a clash of conflicting political systems: democracy and monarchy.- Hollis, Howard. “A Relief from Persepolis.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 9 (1943): 135–37. Cover illustration. www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 670 archive.org
- Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 12, 1948).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.279