Alongside the Behistun (Bisotun, Bistun) - Kermanshah Road, is an embossment of a heroic figure leaning against a piece of lion skin. Statue of Hercules is located in Mount Behistun and was discovered around 1957. The statue was sculpted in 153 BCE for a governor of the Seleucid Empire or the Parthian Empire. This embossment shows a completely naked ...
Statue of Hercules in Behistun - Kermanshah Province
Statue of Hercules is located in Mount Behistun and was discovered around 1957.
Statue of Hercules in Behistun - Kermanshah Province
Alongside the Behistun (Bisotun, Bistun) - Kermanshah Road, is an embossment of a heroic figure leaning against a piece of lion skin.
Statue of Hercules in Behistun - Kermanshah Province
The statue was sculpted in 153 BCE for a governor of the Seleucid Empire or the Parthian Empire.
Statue of Hercules in Behistun - Kermanshah Province
This embossment shows a completely naked and powerful man with curly hair and beard.
Statue of Hercules in Behistun - Kermanshah Province
He is leaning on his left side under the shelter of a tree. To its left hand side a cup is seen. In this impression, the right hand of the figure is placed on the right foot, whereas the left foot leans on the right one.
Statue of Hercules in Behistun - Kermanshah Province
The same is very similar to that of the Grecian temples an impression alongside the inscription reveals a tree with a double pointed bow hanging on a branch, besides an archers sheath or quiver full of arrows also hanging from a branch of the tree.
Bisotun is a city in and the capital of Bisotun District, in Harsin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,075, in 527 families.
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