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 Proto Elamite

Start: 3200 BC
End: 2700 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Early Bronze Age
Script: Proto Elamite

 Old Elamite Period

Start: 2700 BC
End: 1500 BC
Type: Culture
Capital: Susa

 Middle Elamite Period

Start: 1500 BC
End: 970 BC
Type: Culture

 Neo Elamite

Start: 970 BC
End: 520 BC
Type: Culture
Capital: Elam
Language: Elamite
Script: Cuneiform
Religion: Polytheism

 Median Empire

Start: 700 BC
End: 549 BC
Type: Dynasty
Capital: Ecbatana
Language: Median
Religion: Mazdaism
Reference: Herodotus

 Achaemenid Empire

Start: 559 BC
End: 330 BC
Type: Dynasty
Capital: Babylon
Language: Persian, Aramaic, Akkadian, Median, Elamite
Religion: Zoroastrianism, Babylonian

 Alexandrian Empire

Start: 359 BC
End: 323 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Argead Dynasty
Religion: Olympian

 Seleucid Dynasty

Start: 312 BC
End: 63 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Diadochi
Language: Greek, Old Persian, Aramaic
Religion: Olympianism

 Parthian Empire

Start: 247 BC
End: 244 AD
Type: Dynasty
Note: Arsacid Empire
Language: Aramaic, Parthian, Persian, Akkadian
Religion: Zoroastrian, Babylonian

 Sassanid Dynasty

Start: 224 AD
End: 651 AD
Type: Dynasty
Language: Middle Persian, Middle Aramaic
Religion: Zoroastrianism, Babylonian, Manicheism

 Plantagenets

Start: 1154 AD
End: 1154 AD
Type: Dynasty
 
Horned figure ⌕
   
NoteThis solid-cast sculpture is one of a pair of nearly identical images of a hero or a demon wearing the upturned boots associated with highland regions, his power enhanced by the mighty horns of the ibex on his head(NYM). more
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  2007.280
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Kneeling bull figurine ⌕
   
Notemore
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Susa
Material:  Silver
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  66.173
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Statuette of a Monkey ⌕
   
Note
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Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA
Licence:  [🡭]
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Sialk ziggurat ⌕
   
NoteCAD rendering of Sialk ziggurat based on archeological evidence(wikipedia)
Year3000 BC
Category: Architecture
Location:  Tepe Sialk
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Reference: 
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Anthropomorphic vessel ⌕
   
NoteNorthwestern Iran .Smithsonian museums, Washington DC, USA.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  Smithsonian Museums, Washington DC, USA
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference:  S1986.501
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Statue of the Godess Narundi ⌕
   
NoteFrom Awan Dynasty
Year2200 AD
Category: Ornament
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  The Louvre
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Reference: 
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Cuneiform King list of Awan and ⌕
   
NoteDynastic list of the kings of Awan and Simashki. Clay, Sukkalmah (Epartid) dynasty, early 2nd millennium BC. From Susa, Iran
Year1800 AD
Category: Writing
Location:  Susa
Material: 
Collection:  The Louvre
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
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Female figure ⌕
   
NoteWestern Iran, 1350-800 BC
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Ceramic
Collection:  LA County Museum of Art
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference:  M.75.62.5
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female figure ⌕
   
NoteNorth-west Iran, Caspian area
Year1000 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Ceramic
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference:  63.44
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Chogha Zanbil ziggurat ⌕
   
NoteFrom Igehalkid Dynasty
Year1250 AD
Category: Architecture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Reference: 
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Gold lion-griffin plaque ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Gold
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  54.3.2
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Gold ram rhyton ⌕
   
NoteNational Museum of Iran
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Ecbatana
Material:  Gold
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Reference: 
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Golden drinking vessel ⌕
   
NoteThe Hyrcanian Golden cup. Dated first half of first millennium. Excavated at Kalardasht in Mazandaran.
Year
Category: Ornament
Location: 
Material:  Gold
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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