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If one were to trace the first visual representations in persian history, the bas-reliefs in Persepolis (c.500 B. C) would be one of the earliest examples. Persepolis was the ritual center of the ancient kingdom of Achaemenids. As Honour and Fleming state, “the figures at Persepolis remain bound by the rules of grammar and syntax of visual language.” This style of visual representation reached its high peak about a thousand years later during the Sassanian reign.
