Greater Iran, of course, is not an existing country. This category is intended for everything related to the area where, in Antiquity, people spoke an Iranian language, except for Persia.
Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit
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Ctesiphon, Iwan
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The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent
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Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary
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Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm
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Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians
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Charax
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Afrosiab, Ruins
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Hatra, Parthian pottery
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Yazd, Funeral houses
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The river Oxus
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Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)
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Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior
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Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)
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Kangavar, Back
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Fayaz Tepe, Stupa
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Osroes I
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Balkh, Corinthian capital
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Koktepa, Scissors
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Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian
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Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron
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Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton
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Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork
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Tepe Sialk, Northern hill
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Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall
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Vologases IV
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Hamadan, Aqueduct
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The Silk Road
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Hatra, Catapult
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Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel
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Tepe Hesar, Figurine
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Vologases II
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Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant
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Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)
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Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet
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Ctesiphon, Iwan
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Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar
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Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription
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Vardanes I
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Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone
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Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders
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The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus
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Zoilus of Bactria
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Tepe Godin, View from the SE
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Susa, Oil lamp
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Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs
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Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave
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Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama
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Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap
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Hecatompylos, Hill 3
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Scythian arrowheads
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Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases
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Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer
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Eshaqvan, Rock Relief (cast at Taq-e Bostan)
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The Avestan world
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Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"
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Oxus, FIsherman
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians
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Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer
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Afrosiab, Late pottery
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae
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Zurmala stupa
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Modern painting of Zarathustra
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Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery
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Terraces, north of the mountains
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Ai Khanum, Map
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Hamadan, Terrace wall
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Susa, Parthian jar
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Gabae, Hill
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Vologases III
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes
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Zurmala stupa, Brickwork
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Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait
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Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)
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Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases
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Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)
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Bowl from Tepe Hesar I
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Arrowheads from Hamadan
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The ruins from Ai Khanum
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Snake amulet
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Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot
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Zagros, Incision (a brook cutting its way through the rocks)
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Mountain plain
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Fayaz Tepe, Stupa
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Eucratides II of Bactria
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Ctesiphon, Iwan
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Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding
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Orodes III
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Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians
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Ctesiphon, Iwan
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Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons
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Eucratides I of Bactria
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Hatra, Relief of an eagle, a military standard, and the Sun
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Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians
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Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb
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Tepe Hesar, View
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Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base
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Afrosiab, Ruins
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Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle
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Eburz near Ahuan
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Hecatompylos, Hill 1
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Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha
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Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight
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Mithradates I the Great
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Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha
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Susa, Parthian bottle
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A mounted archer
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Mithradates IV
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Tepe Sialk, Iron ore
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes
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Afrosiab, Ditch
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians
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Parthian quarter
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Phraates II
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Old Termez, Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles
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Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates
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Kara Tepe, Relief
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Fayaz Tepe, Fountain
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Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside
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Artabanus II
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Arsaces I
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Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion
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Demetrius I of Bactria
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Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief
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Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial
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Tepe Godin, The deep sounding
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Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases
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Babylonian map of the western Zagros. A road, a mountain, and a river are indicated.
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The Zagros west of Qazvin
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east
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Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace
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Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great
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Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III
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Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist
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Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food
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Hyrcania, Terraces
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Scortaru, Scythian cauldron
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Eucratides I of Bactria
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Artabanus IV
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Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II
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Artabanus I
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The Elburz from Tepe Hesar
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Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium
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Phraates IV
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Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat
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Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV
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Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort
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Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)
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Hatra, Statue of a general
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Tepe sialk, Jar from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with ibexes
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)
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Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche
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Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal
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Afrosiab, Christian ossuary
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Hamadan, Sasanian flask
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Halchayan, Parthian warrior
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Tepe Godin, Map
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Afrosiab, Big jar
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian
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Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief, drawing
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Kara Tepe, Head
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Vonones I
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Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles
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Zurmala stupa
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Head of a bronze statue of a Parthian prince, found at Shami, Khuzestan
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Geological layers
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Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god
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Tepe Godin, Store rooms
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Tepe Sialk, Southern hill
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Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)
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A Magian (Oxus Treasure)
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Zurmala stupa, Entrance
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Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)
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Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers
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Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort
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Hatra, Statue of an eagle
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Kyrgyzstan
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Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad
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Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory
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Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers
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Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort
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Watercourse
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana
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Ahuan, Karwansaray
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)
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Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar
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Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand
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Tepe Sialk, Strata
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Hatra, Temple of Šamaš
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Grey ware from Khurvin
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Kampyr Tepe, Houses
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Zurmala stupa
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Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians
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Parthian musician playing a tanbur
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Fayaz Tepe, Necklace
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Artabanus III
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Behistun Rock, seen from the east
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Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes
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Phraataces
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The "French trench"
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Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations
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Kara Tepe, Head
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Ctesiphon, Iwan
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Tepe Sialk, Cup from the fourth millennium decorated with a human figure
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Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing
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Derbent Road
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Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae
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Zanjan Rud
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Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II
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Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia
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Behistun, Darius' relief, Frâda (center) and Skunkha (right)
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Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity
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Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest
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Parthian bowl
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Kara Tepe, Painted pottery
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians
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Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)
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Kara Tepe, North, General view
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Map of Sogdia
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Vonones II
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Houses in Kampyr Tepe
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Gotarzes II
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian
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Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model
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A mountain valley
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Map of the world of the Scythians
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Hecatompylos, Hill 2
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Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign
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Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ
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Hamadan, Bull's head
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Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp
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Isfahan, Sharestan bridge
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Demetrius I of Bactria
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)
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Sarmatian roundel
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Axe in the shape of a two-headed demon, mastering a boar and a dragon (Early Bronze Age)
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Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian
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Phraates III
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Kara Tepe, Relief
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Parthian mounted archer
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Amulet of Bes from Iran
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Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite
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Susa, Letter from Artabanus II, requesting the appointment of one Hecataeus as treasurer
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Koktepa, Mirror
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Afrosiab, Persian dish
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Kara Tepe, Relief
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Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads
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Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation
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Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane
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Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian
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Kangavar, Foundations of a wall
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Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes
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Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads
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Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear
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Diodotus I of Bactria, coin
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Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court
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Tepe Sialk, Pot from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with an ibex
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary
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The Caspian Sea at Ramsar
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Gotarzes I
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Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals
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Orodes II
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Hatra, seen from the air
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Ahuan, general view of the edge of the Dasht-e Kavir
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes
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Mithradates II
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Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV
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Kampyr Tepe, Plain
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)
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Hecatompylos, Square building
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Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)
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Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag
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Orodes I
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Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)
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Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby
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Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian
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Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief
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Kara Tepe, Head
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Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin
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Axes from Luristan
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Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian
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Sinatruces
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Afrosiab, Ditch
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Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb
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Kara Tepe, North, Court
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Head of a Parthian
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Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"
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Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain
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Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag
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Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries
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Topraq Qala
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Vologases V
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Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)
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Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince
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Gabae, Hill
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Afrosiab, Ruins
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Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"
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Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary
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Chorasmian coin
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Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance
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Kerman, Mountains
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Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort
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Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations
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Vardanes II
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Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa
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Kangavar, Stairs
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Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion
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Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE
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Kangavar, General view
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Gandj Nameh, Waterfall
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Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries
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Hatra, Model of a small temple
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Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area
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Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base
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Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask
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Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita
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Afrosiab, Deformed skulls
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Crossing the Elburz
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Kangavar, Portico
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Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II
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Kara Tepe, South, Two caves
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Tus, Statue of Firdausi
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Monstrous male figure with a water vessel (Early Bronze Age)
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Kara Tepe, West, Caves
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The Zagros, Mountain pass along the road from Hamadan to the west
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Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells
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Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)
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Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler
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Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates
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Kangavar, Platform
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Tiridates I
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Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle
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Vologases VI
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Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace
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Hatra, Statue of Shahiro (?), the morning star
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Bactrian coin
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Isfahan, Zayandeh Rud (and the Si-o-se Bridge)
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Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians
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A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar (seal impression)
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Hecatompylos, Hill 1
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Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp
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Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age
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