Terrace of Persepolis
7x5" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Terrace 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.
The terrace at Persepolis in a pen-and-ink style, left floating on bare white, so the ruin reads as a silhouette across the page. Six Apadana columns stand at uneven heights, two still carrying their carved capitals. Below them the retaining wall runs the full width of the sheet, every register of its relief worked in stipple and cross-hatching.
- Apadana columns at left and right, broken off at different heights
- Two tiers of tribute delegations along the staircase wall, with cypresses set between the groups
- The lion and bull combat panel at the center of the terrace face
- Guard figures lining the diagonal flight of the stair
- Doorframes and pillars of the palaces standing on the platform behind
- Pure black on white, no ground line, no background, no border
Darius I began the terrace around 518 BCE and it was still being extended a century and a half later. The lion bringing down the bull, carved at the heart of the wall, is usually read as an equinox image — the lion for the sun, the bull for the moon — and taken as a Nowruz motif, though the Achaemenids left no text explaining it and the reading is a modern one.
Perfect for
- Gallery walls of architectural and archaeological drawings
- Archaeologists, architects and ancient historians
- A study or hallway in black and white
- Gifts for anyone who has walked the terrace