Tomb of Cyrus
7x5" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Tomb of Cyrus
$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 tomb of Cyrus the Great in a pen-and-ink style, stippled block by block and left floating on bare white. Six stepped courses of limestone rise to a small gabled chamber with a low doorway, drawn from a three-quarter angle so both the depth of the plinth and the pitch of the roof read at once. No ground, no sky, nothing but the stone.
- The stepped plinth with every course drawn separately, wide at the base and tightening upward
- The gabled chamber above, its doorway open and dark
- Weathering, chipped corners and lost blocks left in rather than tidied away
- Stipple and fine hatching for the limestone, dense in shadow and open in light
- Pure black on white, no border
Cyrus was buried at Pasargadae around 530 BC, in a chamber built of ashlar blocks fitted without mortar. The reason it is still standing has little to do with reverence for him. After the Islamic conquest the Achaemenids were largely forgotten, and the building was taken locally for the tomb of the mother of Solomon — Qabr-e Madar-e Solayman. It was treated as a shrine on that basis for centuries, and in the thirteenth century a mosque was built around it using columns carted over from Persepolis. Being misidentified is what saved it.
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 stood at Pasargadae