Photo ID: GA0016
Site: Bishapur
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Description: The massive rubble and mortar walls of this structure led its excavator, Roman Ghirshman, to reconstruct it as a covered reception hall with a 25 m high dome.
Photo Source: Ghirshman, Rowan, "Persian Art, The Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties, 249BC-AD651", New York, Golden Press, 1962.
See Sasanian Sites for collection summary.
Sasanian Projects at UC Berkeley
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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz