نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
During Achaemenid period, we can see various appearances of kings in Several
positions. One series of postures shows him in opposite of different animals.
Reliefs of Throne hall at Persepolis almost identified as the symbolic war between
king and devils by mest of scholars and vesearch. But this research tries to show
that ox or lion had never been the negative and evil definition in ancient Persian
culture and we can’t accept them as devils. We tries to proof this hypothesis that
this reliefs show the various aspects of king’s character and shows him in the
various ceremony like haunting, sacrificing and devils fighting.
In Achaemenid era kings during battle with animals have two purposes wartimes
shows their power through Symbolic hunting and during peacetime identified
themselves as a source of prosperity and regulating force of nature, people and
universe that portrayed through the Symbolic war with Sphinxes.
this articale tries to review the images of king from semiotic aspects and shows
the various levels of signs as symbol, index or Icon to understand the meaning
of each part. The structural viewpoint linked various signs with king’s character
and Identity with mythological knowledge of ancient Iran. The results show that
pictures should be the symbols of sacred power of king, his legitimacy and his
character as the enemy of devils and patron of universe order.
کلیدواژهها English
