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An Ancient Motif


An Ancient Motif
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Copyright: Sohail Forouzansepehr (sfsepehr) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 18 W: 15 N: 29] (121)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-06-05
Categories: Ceremony, Architecture, Artwork, Ruins
Camera: OLYMPUS MJU DIGITAL 800
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: Ancient Persia from My POV
Theme(s): My TE Photos [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-08-02 4:11
Viewed: 653
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The lion-bull decorative motif can be seen in many forms and many places in Persepolis. There are different ideas by scholars about the philosophy of the motif, according to one of them the bull is a symbol of winter and the lion a symbol of spring. So, attacking the bull by the lion means the finishing of winter and the beginning of spring, the new life of nature and therefore the Iranian New Year's Day.

Further information & Full-size photo are available at: http://travels.sfsepehr.com/ancient_persia.html
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My great GOD
how damaged it has become !!
we need to do something about them or else the only thing left from it would be these pictures...

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