X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Parthian art


Parthian art

John Boardman: The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity. Thames and Hudson, London 1994.

The best examples of this is now purely Parthian art but not from the capital, but from locations on the edge of the Parthian empire, such as Dura Europos, Hatra or belonging to the kingdom of Palmyra.

Especially in the earliest Parthian capital of Nisa evidence could be discovered from the early Parthian period indicating the similarities to Greek culture.



see also