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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Plants as Symbols of Power in the Achaemenid Iconography of Ancient Persian Monuments.

Giulia Caneva, Alessandro Lazzara, Zohreh Hosseini

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giulia CanevaDepartment of Science, University Roma Tre, 00146 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0551-7100
Alessandro LazzaraDepartment of Science, University Roma Tre, 00146 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0009-0008-8269-9703
Zohreh HosseiniDepartment of Science, University Roma Tre, 00146 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6999-8353
Roma Tre University · IT

Funding

Dipartimento d'Eccellenza CUP ECCELLENZA_2023-27_BMCAE
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The art of the Achaemenid Empire flourished in Ancient Persia from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE, and featured stone-carved monumental structures adorned with recurring zoological and floral patterns. Such representations clearly had a symbolic meaning intimately connected to religious expression and the will of deities. Considering the lack of any comprehensive analysis of botanical features, we investigate the recurring plant patterns and the variety of plants depicted. An analysis of the documentation referring mainly to monuments in the two main capitals of Darius I, Persepolis and Susa, showed the presence of certain repetitive elements, such as the so-called rosettes (composed variously of Asteraceae capitula and

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flower representationIranian artPersepolisPersian empirephytoiconographyplant symbolismrosettesSusaZoroastrian religion

Identifiers

PMID38068625
PMCPMC10707779
OpenAlexW4389044184

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