Stone Lion of Hamadan
5x7" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Stone Lion of Hamadan
$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 Hamadan at sunset. The Sang-e Shir sits on its plinth at the center of a paved square, drawn whole and alert, with Mount Alvand rising in purple behind it and the finned tower of the Avicenna mausoleum off to the right. همدان is set across the orange sky in gold script.
- The stone lion in three-quarter view, mane and paws carved in full detail
- Mount Alvand in violet and rose, filling the middle distance
- The Avicenna mausoleum tower at right, its ribbed shaft and conical cap picked out
- Ranks of cypress on both sides framing the square
- A screen-print palette of coral, ochre, olive and violet, with visible paper grain
Hamadan is ancient Ecbatana, the Median capital and later an Achaemenid summer residence. The lion is thought to be Parthian or Seleucid, and tradition ties it to Alexander, whose companion Hephaestion died in the city. Two thousand years of weather have worn the original nearly shapeless; here it is drawn as it must once have looked. The tower behind it is modern — Hooshang Seyhoun built it in 1952 over the grave of Avicenna, who died in Hamadan in 1037.
Perfect for
- Travel poster walls and gallery groupings
- Anyone with roots in Hamadan
- Readers of ancient history and the history of medicine
- Nowruz and housewarming gifts