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Unknown, Persian
Tribute Bearer, ca. 650 BCE-330 BCE
Persian Sculpture
Limestone
22 5/8 in. x 12 5/8 in. (57.5 cm x 32 cm), without mount
R.T. Miller Fund, 44.1
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The Tribute Bearer, shown wearing a typical Persian costume and ascending a staircase with his offering, was one of hundreds of brightly-painted stone relief sculptures on the palace walls and stairways of Persepolis, the spiritual center of the Achaemenid Empire. The figure represents one of 23 tribute-bearing delegations from all parts of the Empire that arrived at Persepolis for the annual spring New Year’s festival.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
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