Persepolis -Temple
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:45 pm
Dear Cyrus Shahmiri,
I was at Bombay when your following message appeared and surprisingly before I could react to it was erased unceremoniously. I am quoting your message below."In the north-west of the Achaemenian palaces in Persepolis, there is a temple named "Fratadara", it was believed that it is a Seleucid or Parthian temple.
Lion's Head of Dark Green Stone: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/P ... 7B2_4.html
http://www.geocities.com/rpoorhoseini/art15.html :
"Mud-brick structures would escape more easily; indeed they have been preserved below the Persepolis terrace in a complex excavated by Herzfeld, who believed one of the rooms to be a fire temple planned according to earlier Achaemenid fire sanctuaries. That some of the rooms in the complex had a religious significance is likely in view of Herzfeld's discovery of votive inscriptions addressed to Greek gods who took the place of the Iranian ones, Zeus Megistos instead of Ohrmizd, Apollon and Helios for Mithra, Artemis and Queen Athena for "An+íhit whose name is Lady". [6] In the jambs of a stone window frame belonging to one of the rooms of the complex--but not to the one identified as a fire temple--were found the reliefs of a male and a female figure with raised hands and barsom bundle. Herzfeld considered the male figure to represent a fratadara, keeper of the fire, a title supposedly assumed by princes of Fars who considered themselves successors to the Achaemenids since names like Darius and Artaxerxes stressed Achaemenid tradition. The title has also been read frataraka, which would be the equivalent of governor, a more prosaic interpretation."
But recent inquiries have proved that it belongs to the late Acahemenid period, is it possible that Alexander has built this temple?"Can you kindly elaborate on the last sentence? In my website http://www.geocities.com/ranajitda I have also written something on the lion-capitals of Asoka and have seen a link with Alexander.With best wishes,
Dr. Ranajit Pal
I was at Bombay when your following message appeared and surprisingly before I could react to it was erased unceremoniously. I am quoting your message below."In the north-west of the Achaemenian palaces in Persepolis, there is a temple named "Fratadara", it was believed that it is a Seleucid or Parthian temple.
Lion's Head of Dark Green Stone: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/P ... 7B2_4.html
http://www.geocities.com/rpoorhoseini/art15.html :
"Mud-brick structures would escape more easily; indeed they have been preserved below the Persepolis terrace in a complex excavated by Herzfeld, who believed one of the rooms to be a fire temple planned according to earlier Achaemenid fire sanctuaries. That some of the rooms in the complex had a religious significance is likely in view of Herzfeld's discovery of votive inscriptions addressed to Greek gods who took the place of the Iranian ones, Zeus Megistos instead of Ohrmizd, Apollon and Helios for Mithra, Artemis and Queen Athena for "An+íhit whose name is Lady". [6] In the jambs of a stone window frame belonging to one of the rooms of the complex--but not to the one identified as a fire temple--were found the reliefs of a male and a female figure with raised hands and barsom bundle. Herzfeld considered the male figure to represent a fratadara, keeper of the fire, a title supposedly assumed by princes of Fars who considered themselves successors to the Achaemenids since names like Darius and Artaxerxes stressed Achaemenid tradition. The title has also been read frataraka, which would be the equivalent of governor, a more prosaic interpretation."
But recent inquiries have proved that it belongs to the late Acahemenid period, is it possible that Alexander has built this temple?"Can you kindly elaborate on the last sentence? In my website http://www.geocities.com/ranajitda I have also written something on the lion-capitals of Asoka and have seen a link with Alexander.With best wishes,
Dr. Ranajit Pal