Parthian Worshipper

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Illustration

Ibolya Horváth
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 24 June 2020
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The figure shown here, carved in extremely low relief, may be identified as a worshipper by the right hand raised palm forward in a gesture of reverence. Votive images of worshipers similar to this one adorned the terraces of sanctuary complexes such as those at Bard-e Neshandeh and Masjid-i Sulaiman, both in the Iranian province of Khuzestan.
South-western Iran, 2nd century CE.

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Art, M. M. o. (2020, June 24). Parthian Worshipper. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12415/parthian-worshipper/

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