Photo ID: GA0034
Site: Taq-I Bustan
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Description: The triple arched facade of Sasanian palaces is here simulated in the rock-carved ayvans, two of which still stand against the outcrop of Kuh-i Paru, overlooking the spring and park, at the site of a Sasanian hunting preserve.
Photo Source: Herrmann, Georgina, "The Iranian Revival", Oxford, Elsevier-Phaidon, 1977.
See Sasanian Sites for collection summary.
Sasanian Projects at UC Berkeley
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz