Ardashir I & Ahura Mazda

Illustration

by Lutf 'Ali Khan
published on 20 December 2019

Ardashir I & Ahura Mazda — A drawing of a 3rd century CE Sasanian rock relief in Naqsh-i Rustam, Iran. The relief shows on the right Ardashir I (r. 224-241 CE) and on the left the supreme Persian and Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda. The god is giving the king his ring of office. Illustration by Lutf 'Ali Khan, 1797-1867 CE. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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© Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Republished for educational/scholarly use under the museum's Open Access for Scholarly Content initiative. Original image by Lutf 'Ali Khan. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 20 December 2019 under the following license: Copyright. You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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