Photo ID: GA0017
Site: Bishapur
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Description: A second structure, Building A, is a partially subterranean temple faced with cut stone and roofed with beams supported on bull ptrotome capitals. The discovery here of a water channel that led river water to the structure has now led to the identification of the building with a temple of Anahita, the Zoroastrian goddess of fertility and water.
Photo Source: Herrmann, Georgina, "The Iranian Revival", Oxford, Elsevier-Phaidon, 1977.
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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz