Photo ID: GA0032
Site: Takht-e Sulaiman

Description: The southern gate of the buttressed city walls of Ganzak, is decorated with a row of Sasanian keyhole arches. The defensive buttresses flanking the gateway have been restored. A water channel from the lake runs under the arch.

Photo Source: Berghe, Louis vanden, "Splendeur de Sassanides", Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles, 1993.

See Sasanian Sites for collection summary.

Collection Information.

Sasanian Projects at UC Berkeley


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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz