Ancient West Asian Art

6,203 artworks

Drawing of Sasanian rock relief: battle of Ardashir I (r. A.D. 224-241) at Firuzabad, southern Iran

Lutf-'Ali Shirazi, 1800

Drawing of Sasanian rock relief: Shapur I (r. A.D. 241-272) and Roman emperor Valerian at Naqsh-i Rustam, southern Iran

Lutf-'Ali Shirazi, 1812

Drawing of Sasanian rock relief: Shapur I (r. A.D. 241-272) and members of his court at Naqsh-i Radjab, southern Iran

Lutf-'Ali Shirazi, 1812

Drawing of Sasanian rock relief: Ardashir I (r. A.D. 224-241) and the Zoroastrian divinity Ohrmazd [Ahura Mazda] at Naqsh-i Rustam, southern Iran

Lutf-'Ali Shirazi, 1812

Daniel Praying

William Holman Hunt, 1849

Studies of Assyrian figures (two-sided)

Paul Cezanne, 1859

Nineveh and Persia No. 1, plate XII from The Grammar of Ornament, 3rd edn.

Owen Jones, 1868

Nineveh and Persia No. 2, plate XIII from The Grammar of Ornament, 3rd edn.

Owen Jones, 1868

The Tower of Babel or Birs Nimrud Restored

William Simpson