Donald N. Wilber, \"A relief from Persepolis\", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 2-3.
","citation":"Donald N. Wilber, \"A relief from Persepolis\", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 2-3.
","date":1950,"id":6887,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774238"},{"boilertext":"F. F. Jones and R. Goldberg, Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960).","citation":"F. F. Jones and R. Goldberg, Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960)., p. 20, 21 (illus.)","date":1960,"id":749,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/2181913"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":13446,"period":"Achaemenid Persian Period","alphasort":"Achaemenid","begindate":-550,"enddate":-330,"displayperiod":"Achaemenid Persian Period, ca. 550–330 BCE","displaydate":"ca. 550–330 BCE"}],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"1000 B.C.-A.D 1","dateend":-465,"depicted":[],"titles":[],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1949-115","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This relief depicts a bearded man carrying a cup in the palm of each of his hands as he steps up to an altar. Dressed in a knee-length tunic that is belted at the waist, he also wears a hat on his head; small curls poke out from under the fabric. The relief was originally part of a much larger sculptural frieze that depicted the king, gods, archers, and attendants undertaking various tasks. These reliefs were displayed throughout a palace at Persepolis in present-day Iran that was built by Xerxes I, who ruled from about 486 to 465 BCE. While no known photograph depicts this relief in situ, and a photo from 1933 shows it already removed, research on the corpus of these reliefs suggests that this example was originally positioned along the southernmost end of the facade of the palace’s western stairs. The relief that was originally to its right depicts two tribute bearers, and is now at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.","remarks":"MED1_22_WLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"\n\tRemoved from the Palace of Xerses, Persepolis, by 1933 [1]. [Possibly, E. Sassoon, Paris [2]]. [Stora, Paris and New York, stock no. 8508 RES [3]]. Acquired in Paris and imported to the US by Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965), Cambridge (MA), ca. 1933-1945 [4]; [purchased by Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York (NY), July 1945]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, May 1949.\n
\n\n\t[1] In a 1933 photograph of the palace, the relief was already missing.\n
\n\n\t[2] The Sassoon brothers sold fragments from Persepolis to both Brummer and Stora in the early 1930s.\n
\n\n\t[3] The inventory number is painted in red on the upper left edge of the relief.\n
\n\n\t[4] The provenance from the collection of Paul J. Sachs is noted in "The Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York), May 1949, Part II, no. 138. According to an expertise in the museum files, a "paper Parisian customs stamp" survived with the fragment until it arrived in Princeton. Sachs taught in Paris in 1932-1933.\n
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