A “tree of life” relief from the face of the central iwan, symbolizing spiritual vitality, fertility and abundance.
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 October 1967. Formerly catalogued as B45.731. Notes written on the slide or index: Taq-i Bustan details.
This slide is a Kodachrome Duplicate, and the original was almost certainly processed in one of the September 1967 batches.
