Photo ID: GA0003
Site: Firuzabad
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Description: The building was a long rectangular structure divided into a reception area backed by residential quarters. A long entrance hall, or ayvan, led into a high domed room, the principal audience chamber which was flanked by other domed rooms that occupied a 14m wide area on the north side of the palace. To the south, a smaller ayvan led to an inner courtyard backed by a second axial ayvan. The barrel-vaulted rooms that surrounded the courtyard constitute the residential part of the complex.
Photo Source: Herrmann, Georgina, "The Iranian Revival", Oxford, Elsevier-Phaidon, 1977.
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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz