Photo ID: GA0025
Site: Ctesiphon
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Description: The palace was exceptionally constructed of baked brick and originally richly embellished with marble, painted stucco panels, opulent carpets and textiles. Fragments of stucco panels that decorated the interior walls of the palace at Ctesiphon include floral motifs, beribboned ram, and a royal emblem placed on a pair of wings, in the Berlin State Museum, and a game-hen, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Photo Source: Berghe, Louis vanden, "Splendeur de Sassanides", Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles, 1993.
See Sasanian Sites for collection summary.
Sasanian Projects at UC Berkeley
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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz