Guardians of Persepolis
5x7" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Guardians of Persepolis
$32.49
Materials
Fine Art Prints
Premium archival matte fine art paper, 200–230 gsm. Smooth, bright white surface with an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging. Printed with archival inks for accurate color and high-contrast reproduction. FSC-certified sustainable paper.
Framed Prints
Solid wood frame, roughly 0.875″ wide, available in light, black, or white. Protected by shatterproof optical-grade acrylic — lighter and safer than glass, and it ships without risk of breakage. Dry-mounted to foam core with a kraft paper dust cover and hanging wire installed, ready to hang out of the box.
Production
Every piece is made to order. Nothing sits in a warehouse — your print is produced after you order it, at the facility closest to your address. That means it reaches you faster, travels less distance, and arrives with a smaller carbon footprint than something shipped from a single central location.
A travel poster of Persepolis at golden hour, everything lit ochre against a deep teal sky. A winged guardian sits in the left foreground, wings folded up along its back; behind it the Apadana columns stand in a row with their capitals still on, a doorframe of the palaces beyond, and the bare hills of Fars along the horizon. PERSEPOLIS runs across the top with تخت جمشید beneath it.
- A winged guardian figure carved in the round, filling the left of the frame
- Four fluted columns behind it, capitals intact, drawn against banked orange cloud
- A relief panel of two spear-bearing guards and a striding lion along the base
- Stone doorframes of the palaces in the middle distance
- A warm ochre and teal palette with the grain of an old printed poster
The site has three names and its builders used none of the two you see here. They called it Parsa. Persepolis is Greek, city of the Persians, and it stuck because the Greeks wrote the histories. Takht-e Jamshid — throne of Jamshid — came later still, when Iranians had lost the Achaemenids from memory and assigned the ruins to the mythical king of the Shahnameh instead. The name on this poster preserves a thousand-year-old mistake, and nobody has ever wanted to correct it.
Perfect for
- Travel poster walls and gallery groupings
- Readers of ancient history and archaeology
- Anyone who has walked the terrace
- Nowruz, graduation and housewarming gifts