Sarab-e Bahram

The site of Sarab-e Bahram (the fountain of Bahram) is on near Nurabad, in the North-West of the Province of Fars, in Iran. It is about a rupestral relief sassanide cut in the rock with the top of the source of the same name (Cheshm-e Sarab Bahram). This relief has the effect of not being neither a scene of nomination, nor a scene of triumph, major topics of rupestral art sassanide. It introduces to the center the king Bahram II of face, sitted on a throne, hands posed on the pommel of its sword pricked on the ground, surrounded by four of its close relations (two on each side). The reasons of flower and scissors present on the hairstyles of the two characters represented at the right-hand side of the sovereign seem to identify the Kartir priest, and the Babak top dog. Each one of the dignitary is represented in an attitude of tender and/or respect to the king, hand closed with height of the face, index in top, is bent and directed towards the monarch. According to Eastern conventions of this type of representation, the proportions of the royal figure are increased compared to those of the dignitaries, which thus makes it possible to the king to dominate his subjects.

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