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Wikipedia: The Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550–330 BC), also known as the Persian Empire, was the successor state of the Median Empire, ruling over significant portions of what would become Greater Iran. The Persian and the Median Empire taken together are also known as the Medo-Persian Empire, which encompassed the combined territories of several earlier empires.
![[Cylinder seal]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cylinder_seal_Louvre_AOD108_s.jpg "Cylinder seal")
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![[sculpture d'un lion a persepolis]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lion_persepolis_s.jpg "sculpture d'un lion a persepolis")
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 from Jastrow |
 from Labourlingue |
![[Roman mosaic of the Battle of Issus]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Battleofissus333BC_mosaic_s.jpg "Roman mosaic of the Battle of Issus")
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![[Panorama of Persepolis Ruins]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persepolis_06_s.jpg "Panorama of Persepolis Ruins")
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from Ruthven |
from Kaveh |
![[Persepolis stone dish]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persepolis_stone_dishes_s.jpg "Persepolis stone dish")
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![[Statue of a mastiff, from the south east tower of the Apadana of Persepolis]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persepolis_statue_of_a_mastiff_s.jpg "Statue of a mastiff, from the south east tower of the Apadana of Persepolis")
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from Pentocelo |
from Simorg |
![[Persepolis reliefs]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persepolis_reliefs_2005a_s.jpg "Persepolis reliefs")
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![[Silver rhyta such as this were ubiquitous and used as a drinking vessels in Persia, underscoring the eclectic...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Silver_ryhton_Iran_s.jpg "Silver rhyta such as this were ubiquitous and used as a drinking vessels in Persia, underscoring the eclectic...")
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from travelling runes |
 from Zereshk |
![[The image of a lioness used as a pendant, late sixth–fourth centuries BCE, from Susa]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Amulet_pendant_Louvre_Sb3906_s.jpg "The image of a lioness used as a pendant, late sixth–fourth centuries BCE, from Susa")
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![[Funerary stele,Marble,Dascyleium ,Anatolian]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Funerary_Persian_s.jpg "Funerary stele,Marble,Dascyleium ,Anatolian")
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from Jastrow |
from Alborz Fallah |
![[Ancient bracelet, Achaemenid period, 500 BCE, Iran]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Iran_bracelet_s.jpg "Ancient bracelet, Achaemenid period, 500 BCE, Iran")
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![[Bull capital]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bull_capital_Apadana_Louvre_AOD1_s.jpg "Bull capital")
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from Shauni |
from Jastrow |
![[Achaemenid pottery]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persepolis_Pot_s.jpg "Achaemenid pottery")
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![[Gold and Silver objects from the Oxus Treasure]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Gold_and_Silver_objects_from_the_Oxus_Treasure_by_Nickmard_Khoey_s.jpg "Gold and Silver objects from the Oxus Treasure")
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from Pentocelo |
from Nickmard Khoey |
![[artistic dagger relief.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Khanjar_acha_s.jpg "artistic dagger relief.")
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![[Gold statuette]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Gold_statuettes_from_the_Oxus_Treasure_by_Nickmard_Khoey_s.jpg "Gold statuette")
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from Nasser-sadeghi |
from Nickmard Khoey |
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