Statue of Darius I

The Egyptian statue of Darius the Great is one of the main surviving works from the Achaemenid Empire, housed at National Museum of Iran. It depicts the Achaemenid king Darius the Great with Egyptian iconography and inscriptions. It is the best known example of in-the-round statuary that has remained from the Achaemenid Empire.

The style of the statue is a combination of Egyptian (e.g. the base and the back pillar) and Persian (e.g. the figure).

Darius is depicted wearing a Persian dress, and armed with a dagger at his belt. The pleats of the right side of the robe are inscribed in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian cuneiform. The other side of the robe is inscribed with hieroglyphs. According to these inscriptions, the statue was made in Egypt at the request of Darius. This would have followed the Achaemenid conquest of Egypt. The statue was later brought to Susa by Darius' son, Xerxes I…

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