An exterior view of the two carved iwans.
The Taq-e-Bostan (“arch of stone”) is a site 5 km from Kermanshah in Western Iran, famous for the well-preserved Sassanian rock carvings that it contains in two grottos treated as iwans. There are two iwans, one larger than the other.
Photograph created March 1967. Photograph processed September 1967. Formerly catalogued as B45.728. Notes written on the slide or index: Taq-i Bustan.
Compare with BG.040, taken four years earlier, when the grass before the vaults contained trees, bushes, and barbed wire.
