Ãminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran

Lindsay Allen; Moya Carey

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Chapter 8 Ãminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran

in Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004462083_009

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This chapter proposes new evidence for the active, multimedia reception of pre-Islamic antiquity in early modern Iran, found in a select group of manuscript paintings produced in Safavid Isfahan between 1605 and 1655. We argue here that some seventeenth-century narrative manuscript illustrations deliberately depicted figural stone reliefs inspired by Persepolis, the Achaemenid monumental capital. To support this thesis, we first trace a precursor mode of representing pre-Islamic monuments in earlier (thirteenth- to sixteenth-century) manuscripts of poetry and cosmology, which use Sasanian monuments at á¹¬Äq-e BostÄn to represent âMount Bisutun.â We then reassess direct engagements with the site of Persepolis in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, leading up to the reign of Shah Ê¿Abbas I. Examining contemporary political circumstances under Ê¿Abbasâincluding his 1590 re-conquest of Fars province and his establishment of Isfahan as his capitalâwe conclude that this artistic evidence exemplifies a creative, Safavid reframing of Iranâs pre-Islamic monuments. Although this chapter focuses primarily on Iran (in its fluctuating, early modern territorial forms), we suggest our case study has international resonances. The embedding of Persepolitan reliefs in pre-Islamic narratives precedes and coincides with increased foreign mercantile access to Fars, Persepolis and Isfahan. We suggest that this shows urban elites of Iran contributing to dispersed global dialogues about antiquity in the early modern period.

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Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

Carvings in and out of Time

Reihe:Â Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Band: 123

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ISBN:: 9789004462083

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 15 Sep 2021

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Chapter 8 Ãminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran