Fasciculus:Standard of Cyrus the Great (Blue).svg

Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 470 × 470 elementa imaginalia. Aliae mensurae: 240 × 240 elementa imaginalia | 480 × 480 elementa imaginalia | 768 × 768 elementa imaginalia | 1 024 × 1 024 elementa imaginalia | 2 048 × 2 048 elementa imaginalia.

Sua resolutio ‎(fasciculus SVG, nominale 470 × 470 elementa imaginalia, magnitudo fasciculi: 87 chiliocteti)

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Descriptio

English: Reconstruction of the Achaemenid "falcon standard", based on the design of a tile of Egyptian blue frit found at Persepolis in 1948 (Īrān-Bāstān Museum, Tehran, no. 2436), with the addition of coloring.

The plaque shows Egyptian Horus, but in the Persian context was likely associated with the Avestan "glory-bringing bird", varəγna.

Literature: Sāmī, Persepolis, tr. R. Sharp, Shiraz, 1970, fig. facing p. 100; H. Luschey, "Ein königliches Emblem," AMI 5, 1972, pp. 257-60. A. Shapur Shahbazi, DERAFŠ, Encylopedia Iranica (1994).

The standard is described by Xenophon in Cyropaedia (Book VII, C.1) as: "...and the word went down the lines, "Eyes on the standard and steady marching!". The standard was a golden eagle, with outspread wings, borne aloft on a long spear-shaft, and to this day such is the standard of the Persian king." (however here he is describing Artaxerxes II's standard at Cunaxa).

Datum

20 October 2009

Fons

Opus proprium, Based on a photograph hosted at iranica.com (it is our understanding that this photograph shows a reconstruction and not the actual artefact from Persepolis).

Auctor

Sodacan

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Historia fasciculi

Presso die vel tempore fasciculum videbis, sicut tunc temporis apparuit.

	Dies/Tempus	Dimensiones	Usor	Sententia
recentissima	16:39, 3 Novembris 2023	470 × 470 (87 chiliocteti)	AR VLD	Reverted to version as of 19:41, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
	08:27, 3 Novembris 2023	500 × 500 (62 chiliocteti)	Ashkan Maniee	Reverted to version as of 18:10, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
	19:41, 31 Martii 2023	470 × 470 (87 chiliocteti)	Numberblocksbandretrofan488	Much better.
	18:10, 29 Decembris 2022	500 × 500 (62 chiliocteti)	Frq ltc	Reverted to version as of 15:35, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
	02:09, 2 Iulii 2022	470 × 470 (87 chiliocteti)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 02:49, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
	15:35, 26 Martii 2022	500 × 500 (62 chiliocteti)	Lhigudubi	Reverted to version as of 21:52, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
	02:49, 8 Aprilis 2013	470 × 470 (87 chiliocteti)	Sodacan	colours adjustment
	04:46, 11 Martii 2012	470 × 470 (87 chiliocteti)	Fry1989	fix
	22:47, 17 Aprilis 2011	470 × 470 (87 chiliocteti)	Sodacan	reduced size (as much as I could)
	22:06, 17 Aprilis 2011	473 × 473 (259 chiliocteti)	Fry1989	Reverted to version as of 04:53, 10 March 2011 too big